How Quickly What's Passing Goes Past

How Quickly What's Passing Goes Past brings to vibrant life a post-World War II cultural landscape that underpins our national identity. Here is the bedrock family unit that persevered despite an incomprehensible Cold War backdrop: hard-working parents, kids shooting marbles for keeps, mill closures, baths in birth order, backseat battles, and paper routes. Lowell Jaeger brings great compassion, humor, and grit to his characters, and to their mid-century middle-American world drawn so expertly we can almost touch it, even as we recognize it as irretrievable. --Kathleen Flenniken, Washington State Poet Laureate, author of Plume