The Children's Crusade

By Ann Packer

Categories: Literature & Fiction

In 1954 Bill Blair, a young pediatrician, buys land south of San Francisco and builds a home for the family he hopes to have. The novel follows Bill, his restless wife, Penny, and their four children over five decades. When the troubled youngest son, James, comes home, his siblings Robert, Rebecca and Ryan are forced to revisit their shared past. Ann Packer's novel is a portrait of a family and of a changing California.

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