Cloud of Expectation

Book One: the in America Series

Cloud of Expectation: American classic in the making Summer, baseball, and Ricky Nelson . . . the fi rst stirrings of rock n roll on the radio . . . bicycles, soda pop, and puberty on the way . . . kids suspended between the Farm World, the Town World, and the Great World. Therell be no more books like this because times, as they say, have changed. Take it as a gift from way-back-then to now; or a critic might call it the Last Train from Mayberry. An accomplished, lyrical vision of a locality over several generations. --- Kirkus Reviews I so enjoyed your fi rst book --- I couldnt put it down! --- Gertrude Barnstone Rich with personal and historical detail and sparkling with clear and concise diction, the book succeeds in revealing the bygone, small-town life not only of Arkansas but also . . . of an earlier and simpler America as well. --- Larry D. Thomas 2008 Texas Poet Laureate