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Summer in a Red Mustang with Cookies is a hilarious and poignant look back to the summer of 1969 in a small northwestern Ontario town. A "coming of age" novel, told by Jo Fasano, 25 years after the "unbearably hot" summer that changed her life forever. Lifelong, yet antagonistic friends, Jo and Harold Korkala meet up with the charismatic American, Beth Luoto, the new girl on the block. The trio becomes fast friends in a fast car as Beth takes Jo and Harold on the joyride of their lives that is at once "exhilarating and terrifying".
With the backdrop of world events - from rock star weddings to celebrity deaths; notorious murders and political scandals; from the Vietnam war to the famous "man on the moon", Jo tells her heart-breaking funny story of teenage angst, undying friendship and love, family secrets and lies, heart break and heart burn, tears and laughter, experimentation with drugs, sex and rock 'n roll and the ultimate in betrayal. It was a time of peace, love and misunderstanding.
From the moment Beth arrives in the neighborhood (on the same day that Judy Garland dies) she "seems to cast a spell on everyone she meets". She becomes instant "best" friends with Jo and Harold and young Danny, Jo's kid sister and relentless shadow. Everyone is seduced by Beth's irresistible charm - even Jo's Ma and Mrs. Korkala are inexplicably drawn to her - everyone but the miserable Joe Senior, who "doesn't trust her as far as he can throw her". Strange things happen to people whenever Beth is around.
The Luoto's move into the newly renovated "Cape Cod style" house across the street from the Fasano's. It was previously owned by Beth's mean-spirited and reclusive grandfather, "old man Luoto", who died there, alone, miserly and shockingly wealthy, the previous Christmas. Beth's father, an aloof, silent university professor moves his beautiful, sophisticated wife, their artistic, "wild" daughter and her ancient Golden Retriever Sammy, from Minneapolis to his childhood home in Canada. It is an incomprehensible move that "only he and his therapist understand", one that angers and further alienates him from his only child. Their American style, education, affluence and mysterious past make them conspicuously out of place in the monotonous row of "war time" houses and blue-collar workers. The arrival of old man Luoto's long lost son is the "buzz" of the neighborhood.
Beth's materially indulgent parents give her a brand new 1969 red convertible Mustang as a belated birthday present and compensation for uprooting her from the big city to "Nowhere Ville". The Mustang, affectionately named Sally, becomes the vehicle for Jo and Harold's transformation from childhood innocence to the harsh realities of adulthood, a trip that is the most fun they've had in their entire lives and their worst nightmare.
The heady journey to adulthood begins in the Fasano's weed infested front yard (where Jo first meets the mysterious and beautiful Beth) and moves quickly to the Luoto back yard (where Jo, Beth and Harold "act out" and sleep under the stars), the Hoito (where Jo's family meets for Finnish pancakes every Saturday), the Fasano kitchen (where they gather for coffee and argue over persians), Sibley Beach (where Beth loses her virginity), Boulevard Lake (where Jo almost loses hers), Waverly Park (for their first "love-in"), the hospital (where Danny gets put back together and Jo falls apart), the A and Dub (where they cruise in the Mustang and look for "the party"), Josh's basement pad (where they get psychedelic), Double Gee Pizza (where they get kicked out for obnoxious behavior), the bakery (where Jo discovers another side to her father), Chippewa Park (to celebrate Jo and Harold's birthday), Hobo Creek (where Jo "sneaks" off to in the middle of the night "to think"), south along Highway 61 (where Jo loses her mind and Harold discovers his), and ends in a desolate "white house" in Minneapolis (where ...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781553690467
  • Publisher: Author Solutions Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Trafford Publishing
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 302
  • Spine Width: 17 mm
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 155369046X
  • Publisher Date: 26 Feb 2007
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 435 gr

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