Her best friend, Faith McNulty is a devout Catholic who dreams of staying in their small town, marrying Allen Hanlon, and raising a family. She obsesses about boys and big city life.
Senator Joseph McCarthy convinces the country communists are infiltrating the government, and the threat of nuclear war festered in the collective consciousness of the nationWhile the nation worries about communist bombs, sixteen-year-old Bernadette Vaughn holds court in the family bomb shelter, finagling a way to read Kinsey’s groundbreaking work on human sexuality. The Korean War drags on and the Rosenbergs are executed as spies. The world is ripe for destruction in 1953. THREE friends, TWO secrets, ONE lie, and the summer that changed their lives.
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