Terror at the Sound of a Whistle

Here, Caroline Davenport shares the intimacies of her childhood in post-war Ohio.  She portrays a purely distinct household, several notches away from normal, strange yet familiar, and just beyond her storytelling, beyond the innocent horizon, we can infer all kinds of hardship and villainy.    Meanwhile, Caroline and her closest friend thrive in the luxurious imagination of pre-adolescence.  As they attend school and learn how to dodge its worst lessons, they also acquire fo