'One Shot at Forever'

As an English teacher, I occasionally assign students to read a book outside of class and write a book analysis on that particular book. I always give them some guidelines and hope they choose something that might relate to their interests. In late December, I read around 80 book analyses written by my junior classes. One book especially intrigued me, mostly because it was non-fiction and took place in rural Illinois in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s.