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Change is coming to Faha, a small Irish parish unaltered in a thousand years. For one thing, the rain is stopping. Nobody remembers when it started; rain on the western seaboard is a condition of the living. But now, just as Father Coffey proclaims the coming of the electricity, the rain clouds are lifting. Seventeen-year-old Noel Crowe is idling in the unexpected sunshine when Christy makes his first entrance into Faha, bringing secrets for which...
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"Wish Upon a Crawdad takes place at the end of the Great Depression (1940), during the early years of the electrification of rural America. The fictional story is told through the eyes of twelve-year-old Ruby Mae Ryan who lives on her family's farm in rural Oregon. One of her wishes is to get electricity ... Her family has joined the local electric co-op and they do what they can to help bring electricity to their valley. Now, with electricity on...
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