Until She Comes Home (Audiobook)

from pdebolt

This novel takes place during a week during the summer of 1958 in a Detroit blue-collar neighborhood. When a developmentally challenged young woman disappears, the neighbors band together to find her. During the course of this week, long-buried and recent secrets emerge that forever change marria...

from hubblegal

The author does a wonderful job of slowly building up this multi-layered character study. It's a quiet book, not very fast paced, that gradually pulls you into the lives of the people of this community in the 1950's and their fears, desires, lies and secrets. It's packed with the various stories ...

from jjnaaucoin

I actually liked this book, the characters not so much. The thinking of the time was right on. I loved the look back at what was my grandparents time but the way they would just not speak of things was disturbing but their view to the day of their deaths. Somewhat a mystery, I kind of figured out...

from Beamis12

Alder Street in Detroit is your typical middle class street of the 1950's. The factory in town is the main employer and the women wait for their men to come home after a hard day at work, looking their best and ready to put food on the table. Things are changing, however, some colored have moved ...

from grumpydan

It is Detroit in the 50s and the women of the neighborhood do things together while their husbands work. But soon all will change when a black woman is murdered and a mentally challenged woman goes missing. As racial tension grows; so does the fear in the neighborhood. I thought this would be mor...