The summer of 1976 should have been the very best of that time period for nature-loving Eli Book, but instead it is filled up with terrible changes. His sister starts to hate her country. His beautiful but distant mother is captured between his traumatized Vietnam Battle vet father and his previous antiwar protester aunt, who has arrive to live with them. As well as the just person with whom he can be himself, his closest friend, Edie, starts to carefully turn inward when her parents split up. Watching through the sidelines while his globe falls aside, Eli must consider his 1st courageous guidelines toward truth-telling and adulthood.

“ELI THE GOOD is this generation’s TO Wipe out A MOCKINGBIRD.” – Pamela Duncan, writer of MOON WOMEN “Destined to become classic.” – Good Reads “As in virtually any good southern novel, it is the well-drawn heroes and rich setting up that make this a memorable story.” – Kirkus Reviews