There were only eleven of them, like eleven sisters all the same age in
a large family.... On the television news they heard gunfire and the
sound of helicopter blades and bombs falling. The little girls hung on
to the brink of a hugeness that they knew was there but had no way of
discovering.
The Vietnam War rages overseas, but back at home, in a year that begins
with the hanging of one man and ends with the drowning of another,
eleven schoolgirls embrace their own chilling history when their teacher
abruptly goes missing on a field trip. Who was the mysterious poet they
met in the garden? What actually happened that day? And most important,
who can they tell about it?
In beautifully crafted prose that shimmers and fades, Ursula Dubosarsky
reveals how a single shared experience can alter the course of young
lives forever. Part gripping thriller, part ethereal tale of innocence
lost, The Golden Day is a poignant study of fear and friendship, and
of what it takes to come of age with courage.