"How do you apply logic to something that makes no sense?"
This was really two stories in one told in alternate chapters. One tells of Scott and his friends during the summer and fall of 1962, as the world held its breath during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the school sponsored duck and cover drills, the boys engaged in adolescent pranks and questionable pursuits, and Scott's father decides to build a bomb shelter. The second story recounts events after the bomb is detonated and Scott's family retreats to their haven. Unfortunately, they are not alone. The second story is profound, frightening, and thought-provoking. I found the first to be irreverent and disrespectful. Perhaps the author it was much needed comic relief for the tragedy embedded in the second. There is an excellent Afterword detailing the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Truman Award Preliminary Nominee 2015-16
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