This story was written in the 1980s but is about a time in the 1940s in Alabama. Two young kids around teenagers are at small town for a summer. They boy lives there with his mother that can barely function and his grandma that runs the house. The girl is a little older and has been sent there by her father to live with two older unmarried aunts. The girl's mother had passed away and father needed someone to help out in raising her. The two become friends and get into mischief there. A blow up causes them to run away into the swamps. A good story, at times a little tough to read because times were changing, I guess they are always changing to one degree or another but in the south right after the war was a time. There are other short stories at the end of this book too, interesting from what I remember.
I have posted this book on PBS & is only copy so could move at some point. Funny enough that I had posted this book earlier on PBS for probably a year or so & never got requested. When I was cleaning off my bookshelf I saw it again & figured I would read it this time & so here we are.
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