ABOUT
THE BOOK

In 1948 Cleveland was America’s sixth biggest city: by 1969 it was the twelfth. For Easterners, Cleveland is where the Midwest begins; for Westerners, it is where the East begins.
In the summer of 1948 fourteen-year-old David Zielinsky can look forward to a job at the docks. Anne O’Connor, at twelve, is the apple of her political boss father’s eye. David and Anne will meet – and fall in love – four years later, and for the next twenty years this pair will be reluctantly star-crossed lovers in a troubled and turbulent country.