(William Morrow) When young Brenda Dubie, having to mind her father’s music store in the Hyde Park corner of 1940s Chicago while he is serving overseas, first meets young Charlie Fish, she’s decidedly underwhelmed. But in wartime pickings are slim, and Brenda certainly wasn’t above raising a boy’s spirits. Her mother, however, took a different view, sensing that beneath the shy, very well-mannered if unsophisticated surface, there were depths to Charlie’s character. She impresses upon her daughter to spend … (read more)
