A thoroughly enjoyable sequal toWorthy's Town...Rolens is a subtle narrator...A balanced and evocative saga of everyday American life after the war.
Kirkus
Take[s] readers well beyond their usual comfort zones...Something within expands when you read about them [the characters].
Susan Salter Reynolds
Los Angeles Times
Many readers...will immerse themselves in this community of quirky and ... Read moreperverse characters.
Library Journal
As warm and enjoyable as its predecessor, Rolens' second novel is a pitch-perfect depiction of small-town life.
Kristine Huntley
Booklist, (American Library Association)
Rolens' recreation of rural postwar America is honest and warm.
Publishers Weekly
#5 Regional Best seller
Denver Post/Rocky Mountain News
The author is resourceful enough to entertain her readers with a well-built window on a vanishing world...The graceful entraces and exits of her various story arcs create a pleasant rhythmic flow of local scenery, much like the well-preserved 1924 Moon Chevy that Drayton coaxes back to running form.
Leeta Taylor
Foreword Reviews
The author...propels the plot forward, and she gracefully weaves in details that give the novel its strong sense of time and place.
John Hinkemeyer
Rocky Mountain News, (Denver)
The depiction of rural, small town America, with its dramas and quirky characters, is an engaging story.
Lima News, (Oh)
Rolens has matured her characters in this sequel...Once again Rolens skillfully evokes a small-town life in an earlier era...[Old Kane] is still a place to be viewed with affection...I hope Rolens revisits these characters a third time.
Ellen Keith
Historical Novel Society
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