I finally got a good chance to sit and read a book... Navpress has a book program that you have to write a blog regarding a book they sent you...

The book I was sent was The Summer the Wind Whispered My Name by Don Locke.

It is about a boy coming into the reality that his parent's are perfect... and the changes that hit a neighborhood when a black family moves into a white suburb in 1959.

The book is written in a memoir style as the man looks back on his life and that summer.

What I liked about the book was the fact that it wasn't written from an "all is well" with the world. It looks at the thought process of a young boy - of his slowly waking up to the real world... of his dad falling from his perch and looking at his family... he has 2 siblings... 1 brother and 1 sister and a faithful mom... of his confusion of their changes and the changes of the family dynamics... this isn't "Beaver's" perfect house.

The boy has a paper route that allows him to have interactions with many of his neighbors - some of characters help him awaken new thoughts while others help him enjoy life and learn about the harsh realities that life sometimes presents...

I do recommend this book as it has a nice realistic story - not one where you know the finish before you start... one of a family struggling with the world as it was back then - dealing with racism, the cold war and "perfect" TV families….