Lee has been in touch with the neighbors, the Chris family, who have opened the house and done what they could to make it welcoming. They still own a house there and, as the story begins, the family is on the way there. She also talks a lot about Maple Hill, where she spent her summers as a child. A former POW, Dale is suffering from mood swings and depression and seems to be tired all the time. The only "give away" is when Joe refers to 4 dollars as a lot of money - but even that, since Joe's a kid, doesn't do any harm to the timelessness of Miracles. Sorensen mentions "the war" without ever mentioning Hitler, Germany or WWII. Because the setting is nature and a back-to-the-land ideal, the story could be set after almost any war - and because we're in a war right now, it could easily be set in the present. Ignoring the copyright date, there is almost nothing in it that sets it in a particular timeframe.
ISBN 0590431455 - This Newbery Award Winner managed to pull off one of the most difficult things in kids' books - possibly in any genre.
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