Susan Pogorzelski

It’s been almost a decade since the end of the war, when the telegram first arrived at their house on Lennox Lane. Four years since the apartment on Harker Street, where food was scarce and nights were long and their mother slept away her grief. Three months since Janie was forced to leave her little brother, Brayden, and best friend, Leo, behind at Anthers Hall. Two weeks since she stole a bicycle and ran away from the new children’s home on the other side of the state. One

It's the town where Annie panned for gold in the creek in 1979 and turned to her veteran neighbor as a friend and confidante in Gold in the Days of Summer. It's the place where Lia's world was shattered as she struggled to shape her own identity in the midst of chronic illness at the turn of the new century in The Last Letter. It's the contemporary home in which Lilac dreamed a life she'd never get to live in Lilac in Winter... Now we're going back to the past with seventeen-