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What if I don't have any big dreams? The year is 1969 and things are changing faster than eighteen-year-old Edna Louise Walters can wrap her head around. Eddy is restless, coiled tightly inside, and full of desires for a boy who is also toeing the precipice of adulthood as he's drawn into the environment of drag racing. Meanwhile, the world is charged with overwhelming events and revolution, and even in her small Virginia town, Eddy feels the currents running through her like electricity as she completes her final semester of high school and prepares for what lies ahead.Covering some of 1969's most iconic moments, from the Beatles' infamous rooftop concert, to space launches, to the University of California-Berkley's Bloody Thursday, this smartly written piece of narrative nostalgia delves into the complex emotions of approaching adulthood during one of modern history's most exciting and tumultuous years.

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""With humor, Sarjeant created vivid, likable characters who deal with confusing feelings, conflict, and serious crucial issues. Music is always front and center ... I heartily recommend this one."" - Mary Kratt, author of Watch Where You Walk""Janet Vass Sarjeant takes us on a journey through growing up in a small town. ... She brings to life friendships and experiences that let us reframe our own days of teenage awkwardness and insight ... [and] shares the highs and lows of growing up in an authentic and endearing way."" - Michael C. Maxey, President Emeritus, Roanoke College""Half Year, Half Light is a winner! With this novel, Janet Sarjeant proves she is a capable storyteller. Her prose sparkles. The experiences of her characters feel thoroughly authentic. This novel reveals the vital place that adolescence occupies in every person's life journey. I was totally captivated. You will be too.""-Judy Goldman, author of Child and The Rest of Our Lives""Half Year, Half Light, as seen by music-loving high school senior Eddy Walters, reminds us what it feels like to ponder leaving home while still dancing to our favorite teenage songs, where the angst of growing up is balanced against the fun and curiosities of young life. Set in a small town in the late 1960s, Eddy's story is eager and questioning, a split-screen of activity: both carefree and searching, serious and adventurous, and loving and dispiriting. And best of all, we can feel the tempo, pulse, pace, and rhythm of Eddy's journey in the 45s she plays on her record player, with the crescendo rising to what life will bring."" -Landis Wade, Charlotte Readers Podcast founder and author of Deadly Declarations

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