The Starlite Drive-in: A Novel
YA?During the long, hot summer of 1956 in rural Indiana, Callie Anne Benton, almost 13, is stuck at home on the grounds of the Starlite Drive-in. Her agoraphobic mother has not left the house in five years, trapping her embittered father, who manages the facility, in a job he has grown to hate. Callie Anne is happiest when she is watching movies with her father in the projection booth. The arrival of a drifter, Charlie Memphis, hired to work at the drive-in, promises to make the summer more bearable. Callie Anne, at first enamored of his charms, grows alarmed as she watches the man's kindness toward her mother and the growing relationship between the two. When he coaxes Teal out of the house and perhaps out of her husband's life, Callie Anne is faced with some difficult choices. A disastrous turn of events teaches her the complexities of love and loss. Young adults will enjoy this study of divided loyalties, told in the voice of the grown-up Callie Anne, as she tries to sort out the secrets of that tumultuous summer.?Pat Bangs, Fairfax County Public Library, VACopyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.