If the first 250 pages had been cut to 150 pages I would have loved this book. The story of living in the time when uncontrolled Polio destroyed lives tugs at your heart. Georgie's love and concern for her brother Emmett who thinks he's in love with Phyllis who lives in an Iron Lung are a great pl... more

If the first 250 pages had been cut to 150 pages I would have loved this book. The story of living in the time when uncontrolled Polio destroyed lives tugs at your heart. Georgie's love and concern for her brother Emmett who thinks he's in love with Phyllis who lives in an Iron Lung are a great plot. But the author spends so much time wallowing in Georgie's thoughts which are not always accurate for the 1950's, i.e. macaroni and cheese in a box, seems to go on forever. Then the climax is told in less than two pages and only eight pages from the end. The poorly written ending does not fix the feeling of being jerked out of the story.