The story takes place in the summer sometime in the late twentieth century, probably in the 1980s, although no specific year is mentioned. Karen, a fifteen-year-old girl from the suburbs of Chicago, has been sent to New Franklin, Illinois, ostensibly to visit her Aunt Augusta but in actuality to curtail her extravagant moping over "a lost boyfriend." While at Augusta's house, Karen helps.....
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