Description

From the number 1 best-selling writer of October Sky comes this rich, memorable story. Using the same stunning storytelling that distinguished his first memoir, Homer Hickam takes us further in to the spirit of his West Virginia hometown in a moment when its distinctive life-style is buffeted by forces of change and time. It's drop 1959. Homer “Sonny” Hickam and his fellow Rocket Boys have been in their senior year at Big Creek High, and the city of Coalwood locates itself at an unpleasant crossroads.