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Best vendor Alan Brennert's spellbinding history about a family of dreamers and their lives within the famous Palisades Amusement Park. Growing up in the 1930s, there is absolutely no more marvelous place than Palisades Amusement Park in NJ - specifically for seven-year-old Antoinette, who horrifies her mom by insisting on the unladylike nickname Toni, and her brother, Jack. Toni helps her parents, Eddie and Adele Stopka, at the stand where they sell home made French fries amid the roar of the Cyclone roller coaster. Addititionally there is the lure of the world's biggest salt-water pool, filled with divers whose amazing stunts encourage Toni, despite her mother's insistence that females can't be high divers. But a family of dreamers doesn't always show the same dreams, and then the world intrudes: There's the fantastic Despair, and Pearl Harbor, which visits home with techniques that will divided the family aside; and perils like flame and competition riots in the recreation area. Both Eddie and Jack face the hazards of war, while Adele has ambitions of her own - and Toni is set to take on an extremely different kind of hazard in impossible feats as a high diver. Yet all of them are drawn back to the other person - and to Palisades Park - until the park closes permanently in 1971. Evocative and moving, with the hallmark brilliance at transforming historical occurrences into amazing fiction that made Alan Brennert's Moloka'i and Honolulu into listener favorites, Palisades Park needs us back to a period when life looked like simpler - except, of course, it wasn't.
