Eleven-year-old Seth Roberson and his pal Collin are enjoying a carefree summer before beginning middle school in the fall. All that changes when the boys discover a dead body floating in an abandoned log pond. When no one comes forth to claim the body, identified as that of reclusive Vietnam War veteran Henry Garber, Seth makes it his mission to see that the man's remains receive a proper burial in a national cemetery with military funeral honors. What Seth doesn't know is that startling revelations about Garber's past will upend his life and send him reeling toward manhood.
From the author of the award-winning novel
Tamara's Child
comes this gripping story of a boy and the old man he comes to know only after his death.