Shinto: A History

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depicts a story of love longed for, lost, and perhaps still within reach just as our nation＊s mythic yesterday became our troubled today, our last summer of innocents. A can’t put down page turner!
… A keen sense of time and place is present … Madden … keeps readers guessing in that regard; Jack goes missing in action in Vietnam, Laurie marries someone else, and that＊s just for starters. A disclaimer tries to separate history from fiction, but it also notes that Jack＊s life shares strong similarities with Madden＊s.
This is a love story set in the Upper Ohio Valley in the 1960s when two seemingly permanent forces〞the steel industry and Catholic parochial schools〞were at their zeniths. Both no longer exist but they form the background for the story of Jack Clark and Laurie Carmin who came of age just as our relative simplicity was slipping away.
): Included in the 2024 Goethe Book Awards Short List for Late Historical Fiction. Under consideration for the 2025 Chatelaine Book Awards Short List for Romantic Fiction.