La Porte County Public Library System

In October of 1938, on their farm homestead in Ohio, an African American family is caught up in the fear generated by the Orson Welles "War of the Worlds" broadcast.

"Growing up on his family's cattle farm in western Iceland, young Orri has gained an appreciation for the beauty found in everyday things: the cavorting of a newborn calf, the return of birdsong after a long winter, the steadfast love of a good (or tolerably good) farm dog. But the outer world still beckons, so Orri leaves his no-nonsense Lithuanian Jewish mother and his taciturn father, Pabbi, to attend university in Reykjavík. Pabbi is no stranger...