![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A couple of decades came and went while the old bridge stood silently straddling the Mississippi and gathering rust. Mostly the cousins don’t want their time together to end.Īlthough it was never officially accredited as a landmark, the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge was widely recognized as one, and the city of Madison was loathe to have it torn down. Tom, in particular, has developed a close bond with his cousins, Julie and Robin, and on his last night in town, he sneaks out to visit the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge, where Julie, an aspiring poet, has left some of her poetry by way of graffiti. Both sides of the family are there, so the siblings have lots of cousins to hang with and it’s a happy time. In 1991, 16-year-old Cummins, her younger sister, Kathy, 14, and older brother, Tom, 18, are vacationing in St. It was a school night and that’s way past light’s out for me, but I just couldn’t stop reading it. I was about 40 pages along when I settled in to read the other night and I finally had to turn off my light at 2 a.m. I had the same experience with her memoir/true crime A Rip in Heaven. It was only a few months ago that I read Jeanine Cummins’s American Dirt, a novel that, though not without controversy, I could not put down. ![]()
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