Fourteen-year-old Homer Macauley is determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger. With his older brother away at war, Homer takes on the responsibility of caring for his family, including his widowed mother, older sister, and 4-year-old brother, Ulysses.
Ithaca
In the sweltering summer of 1942, 14-year-old Homer Macauley navigates the turbulent landscape of adolescence as his older brother readies himself for deployment to the war front.
