Dear Ann

From the acclaimed author of the classics Shiloh and Other Stories and In Country comes a beautifully crafted and profoundly moving novel which follows a woman as she looks back over her life and her first loveAnn Workman is smart but naïve, a misfit who's traveled from rural Kentucky to graduate school in the transformative years of the late 1960sWhile Ann fervently seeks higher learning, she wants what all girls yearn for--a boyfriendBut not any boyShe wants the "Real Thing," to be in love with someone who loves her equallyThen Jimmy appears as if by magicAlthough he comes from a very different place, upper-middle class suburban Chicago, he is a misfit too, a rebel who rejects his upbringing and questions everythingAnn and Jimmy bond through music and literature and their own quirkiness, diving headfirst into what seems to be a perfect relationshipBut with the Vietnam War looming and the country in turmoil, their future is uncertainMany years later, Ann recalls this time of innocence