Lightning Song Book

I have been amazed and entertained by the two previous Nordan books I've read (The Sharpshooter Blues and Wolf Whistle). This one, no. I didn't finish it and won't be going back to it.

The problem wasn't so much that what I read of it lacked the humor and pathos of the other books--although it did. It wasn't so much that it lacked the depth of the others--although it did.

The problem was that it messed up the history on a very important point. There is an entire section dealing with how the mother in the book becomes smitten by the story of the kidnapping of Aldo Moro (Italian Prime Minister). A quick peek at Wikipedia shows that Moro was kidnapped on 16 March 1978 and his body was found on 9 May 1978. During this time, not only was the main character, a twelve year old boy, not in school, it was freakin' summer as far as the book was concerned. Summer? In March?

My rule is that if an author doesn't care enough about his/her work to do the research, then this reader doesn't care enough to read the book!