An earlier book by the author of the shattering "Evening News", which struck me as powerfully as few books have. This is a worthy read, well-written and promising, about a young girl's observation of her family against the backdrop of JFK's assassination, and how it seemingly provides the nudge that propels Suzanne's mother, Helen, into emotional withdrawal and the family into divorce, unheard of in these Beaver Cleaver times. My only quibble is that the author seems to have sort of stumbled into a vague and unsatisfying conclusion of the storyline, loose ends everywhere - although she does nearly redeem the book in the moving epiphany of the final paragraph. ( )