This is set in my home town. Chicken Hill is a real neighborhood (to get there, go east on High Street, turn left on King, go up to Beech Street). And I was in town all that summer, working on flood clean up after Agnes caused reprocessed crankcase oil to spill. I have to read this!

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride: 9...

Agnes 50 years later: A storm that will never be for...

Sorry, I'm going to post a few more links. Biggest inland oil spill ever.
Schuylkill River Spill; Douglassville, Pennsylvania ...

I love stories set in known locales...there's a mystery writer here that sets the stories in Cleveland and I love them

Thanks for the recommendation!

Fly Fisher : thank you for looking at this. it turned out to be an important summer.

🌸wotitdo🌸 : true!

Oh, how cool. And love the connection you have with the town!

🌸wotitdo🌸 : Who's the author?

Les Roberts

https://www.bookseriesinorder.com/...

here's a random link

Milan Jacovich are the ones I've read

mimi : a 45 year connection!

Amazing!

🌸wotitdo🌸 : Thanks!