An American Tune (Break Away Books)

While reluctantly accompanying her husband and daughter to freshman orientation at Indiana University Nora Quillen hears someone call her name a name she has not heard in more than 25 years. Not even her husband knows that back in the 60s she was Jane Barth a student deeply involved in the antiwar movement. An American Tune moves back and forth in time telling the story of Jane a girl from a working-class family who fled town after she was complicit in a deadly bombing and Nora the woman she became a wife and mother living a quiet life in northern Michigan. An achingly poignant account of a family crushed under the weight of suppressed truths now available as a Break Away Book Club Edition An American Tune illuminates the irrevocability of our choices and how those choices come to compose the tune of our lives.