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This book set in early 1960s America follows a young girl trying to cope with both the threat of nuclear warfare, and her own emotional problems. What is interesting about the book to me is how the girl (named Franny)'s internal issues and family trouble plays out almost like an annalogie to the wartime struggle of the town as a whole. Granted the parallel isn't perfect, you won't see each family member correspond to a certain nation involved or anything so specific, but in general tone and progression within the story, I did feel like there were similarities. to me, the biggest parallel was
Franny's mentally unstable uncle, who the whole family acts like is just fine, when really, everyone's just eating for him to crack, and be taken away. Similar to how everyone in the town is trying to live a normal life, whilst "just waiting around for a bomb to fall."