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Third Willow is Lenore Skomal's basic, heroic coming-of-age book, ostensibly written for young people but better appreciated by adults. Within the apex of the wooded matriarch is where he noticed it-his oneness with the willow. The branches fluttered with his weight, as he fused into them. He moved as it moved and vice versa, in a synergistic party; an expansion of the lumbering mammoth and it of him, linked in some unfathomable way. It is the summertime of '54 in the sleepy midwestern town of Fine sand Flats, Nebraska. Four lonely misfits forge an unlikely camaraderie under the draping branches of the third willow - a safe place where laughter, magic and sorrow coexist. There they find that best friends can ease the stresses from the adult world that threaten to steal their innocence. Ringleader Hap - an unhealthy man's Peter Skillet - is unwilling to let the maltreatment of his alcoholic dad taint his boyish optimism while he secretly searches for his missing mom. Enthusiastic about his Indian origins, he constructs a carefree world on the outskirts of town. As the new child in Fine sand Flats, tomboy Patsy joins him, wanting to get away her father's iron guideline and the pain afflicting her wounded sibling, a Korean Warfare veteran. Together, Hap and Patsy befriend timid Beah, who battles to earn the love of her frosty mother following a fatality of her only sibling. It takes levelheaded Raz, the eldest of really the only Jewish family around, to be the conscience of the group. Told through their sight, this is an account of a summertime of unbridled experience, which ends unexpectedly and abruptly forces all of them into adulthood. As sensitive as it is strong, Third Willow will carry one to the last summertime of your innocence.
