Seven-year-old Scotty Ocean’s 1969 is guaranteed to be one to remember, but not the way he wants. His mother, a failed artist, abandons Scotty, his remote father and two older sisters and nothing Scotty does can bring her back. Although his dad tries to pull the family together, Scotty, determined not to grow up, starts acting out in school. Peter Hedges, author of What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?, uses a little boy’s dwindling feeling of security to explore how the social upheaval of the 1960s changed the face of American families in An Ocean In Iowa. | An OCEAN IN IOWA by Peter Hedges, Paperback | Indigo Chapters