Helpful Score: 1
I was captivated by this tale but it was sometimes a harrowing journey. It does a good job of taking the reader back to the time of 1938. It is told from the perspective of 105 year old Woodrow Wilson Nickel (Woody Nickel). He is writing his stories in a journal as he desperately tries to get them all down on paper before his impending death. He wants to be sure the one he is writing to (we don't find out who until the end) has the entire true story of events. Woody Nickel was young, naive in many ways but jaded in other ways in 1938. His experiences have made him sometimes "less than honorable" in his decisions and his actions. There were times I wanted to wring his neck! But isn't that true of many of us when we are young? And the world was different. So we follow Woody as he learns and grows. I was wound up with worry for the animals at times so some parts were difficult. But the ending was mostly good and I did enjoy it.
