The South Side of Boston

Eight-year-old William Strickland Peach lived a half mile south of the church, the school, and the country store that comprised the rural Tennessee community of Boston. The boy's often precocious narrative evokes a slightly poignant, delightfully irreverent image not only of farm life in 1944, but of childhood itself -- a place and time familiar to each reader. For him there are always plenty of answers and never enough questions.