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A small 1950s desert town with foreboding secrets

When young Steve White comes of age in the small, remote high desert town of Juniper in the 1950s, the unique phenomena of the age and the power plays of the town’s adults combine to shape and challenge his young life. Korea and the Cold War, the threat of nuclear bombing, racial prejudice, the Asian flu pandemic, polio, child abuse in the church, political conspiracy and corruption, UFOs and aliens, and the pains of teen love all have profound impacts on the town and the boy who grows up in it.