num_pages: 295
description: In the small lake town in Florida where LuLu Rainey and Saul are growing up life is complicated by war longing and the sharp pain of conditional love. Coming of age while coming to terms with their detached parents unrealized dreams and the backdrop of the war in Vietnam the threesome push past childhood into their teenage years with the shared baggage of a generationone that is caught up in the lingering innocence of a private world until outside events cast that world in a different light and the three measure their days by measuring each other: whether in wit complicity or hurtfulness. In the years that they are together men walk on the moon students are shot at Kent State and of their three military fathers only one returns from Vietnam.An extraordinary debut novel Sybelia Drive is a story told through layered kaleidoscopic images and unforgettable language.
language: English
title: Sybelia Drive
publisher: Braddock Avenue Books