From bestselling author Ken Dryden, a riveting new book.
On Tuesday, September 6, 1960, the day after Labour Day, class 9G at
Etobicoke Collegiate Institute in a suburb of Toronto assembled for the
first time. Its thirty-five students, having written special exams, came
to be known as the "Selected Class."
They would stay together through high school, with few exceptions. They
would spend more than two hundred days a year together. Few had known
each other before. Few have been in other than accidental contact in all
the decades since.
Their ancestors were almost all from working-class backgrounds. Their
parents had lived their formative years through depression and war. They
themselves were born into a postwar world of new homes, new schools, new
churches. New suburbs. Of new classes like this one. Of boundless
possibilities.
When almost anything seems within reach, what do we reach for?
Ken Dryden was one of these thirty-five. In his varied, improbable life,
he had wondered often how he had gotten from there to here. How any
of us do. He decided to try and find his classmates, to see how they
are, what they are doing, how life has been for them. They talked many
long hours, in a way they had never talked before. Most had married,
some divorced, most have kids, many have grandkids.
This is the story of a place, a time, and so much more.
