Retreads

<p><i>Retreads</i> tells the middle of the story begun in <i>Thundering Sneakers</i> and concluded in <i>Sneaking Out.</i> In this collection of essays Prudence Mackintosh follows her sons through the tween years between little boyhood and adolescence. Vividly portraying the chaos that descends on a house full of active children she also records the many first times and last times that give poignancy to the middle years of motherhood.</p>