George and Louise

Oregon, 1925. Like his semi-reclusive parents, ten-year-old George Graham doesn’t have friends, preferring to live inside the safe and predictable world of his books. This all changes when his classmate Louise Pearson, new to town, befriends him. Curious about his family’s secrets, and with plenty of her own, the pair become an irrepressible, inseparable team, bantering and bickering their way through what turns out to be an unforgettable summer.

Oregon, 1927: Twelve-year-old Louise Pearson wants to fly. Her mother doesn’t think it’s ladylike; her best friend George Graham doesn’t think it’s safe. But Louise doesn’t feel safe on the ground. Her mother seems to be holding her at arm’s length. George is preoccupied with a religious identity crisis. Worst of all, terrifying anonymous notes keep popping up where Louise least expects them.

Oregon, 1931: George Graham and Louise Pearson are seventeen. He's heading to seminary and she's a newly licenced commercial pilot. She's more in love with him than ever. He still hasn't noticed. Then a new boarder comes to live at the Grahams' boarding house. Velma is beautiful and manipulative and determined to have the virtuous George no matter what it takes, ripping George and Louise apart, sending the friends in very different directions than either of them had planned.