Pearl Harbor has just been bombed, and thirteen-year old Blue Awesome Easterly yearns to grow up fast, join the Army Air Corps, and become a hero. But one-eyed Aunt Spook warns him: Beware the light She knows, because the swamp people told me while I was in a trance, that Blue Awesome is fated to see events from the past-revealed in flashes of light only he can see. This light never dies, cautions Aunt Spook. And it never forgets what it sees.
Blue Awesome's parents operate their funeral parlor/telephone business out of their home, Welcome Hall, in deep south Home Free, a small village...