Where the Tracks Lead
- ISBN-10
- 0578735466
- ISBN-13
- 9780578735467
- Pages
- 316
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-08-30
- Author
- Alvera Winkler
Description
Join Raven's roller-coaster ride through a life charged with breath-taking, heartbreakig, and laughable moments as she grasps for something to cling to in her emotionally unsupported life. Where the Tracks Lead is an autobiographical novel of adventure and survival describing growing up in another time. Born as WWII winds down, Raven and her big brother raise themselves more or less. Rob leads Raven on hair-raising escapades exploring the woods, the river and the railroad tracks that run through their struggling flood prone town. They develop a friendship with Mr. Pop, the ancestor of a former slave who founded their town. Mr. Pop's home burns down and Rob makes a horrific discovery. Prepubescent Raven finds trouble when she bands together with six girls. Their leader Holly, a beautiful, enigmatic and wacky girl from NYC, has ideas for spicing up life that have no bounds, even resulting in Raven's arrest before Holly mysteriously disappears. Eventually the girls are separated until many years later when they are serendipitously reunited in time to carry out Rob's eccentric last wish.
