Palisades Park - Alan Brennert
Category: General Fiction
Narrator: Mark McCarthy
Tags: General Fiction, Historical Fiction
Best seller Alan Brennerts spellbinding story about a family of dreamers and their lives within the legendary Palisades Amusement Park. Growing up in the 1930s, there is no more magical place than Palisades Amusement Park in New Jersey - especially for seven-year-old Antoinette, who horrifies her mother by insisting on the unladylike nickname Toni, and her brother, Jack. Toni helps her parents, Eddie and Adele Stopka, at the stand where they sell homemade French fries amid the roar of the Cyclone roller coaster. There is also the lure of the worlds biggest salt-water pool, complete with divers whose astonishing stunts inspire Toni, despite her mothers insistence that girls cant be high divers. But a family of dreamers doesnt always share the same dreams, and then the world intrudes: Theres the Great Depression, and Pearl Harbor, which hits home in ways that will split the family apart; and perils like fire and race riots in the park. Both Eddie and Jack face the dangers of war, while A
