Another author from my hometown, McHenry, IL, penned this novel. I have almost finished reading this neat story about a young boy who is at first, distant from his great-grandfather, but quickly grows close to him. The bond is the great-grandfathers opening up about his personal experiences in the U.S. Navy during WWII, and in particular, the epic battle for Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands which took place in November 1942.  The story reads well and the author, Rich Rostron does a fabulous job melding current times with the fading, but oh so precious memories of a dying seaman.

One can clearly envision the young lads' at first clear annoyance when he's told that his aging great-grandfather is going to take up precious room in the small apartment that the boy and his divorced mom live in, in the small City of McHenry, northwest of Chicago. After he moves in, slowly and inexorably, the bond starts and continues to grow as the story telling sessions that he and his best friend sit in on gets deeper and deeper into the harrowing wartime remembrances in the South Pacific aboard the U.S.S. Atlanta Light Cruiser.

https://a.co/d/0UsclsE