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Goose Lake isn’t much of a town; about 200 folks and 700 miles north of nowhere which, to the satisfaction of the U.S. Air Force, makes it just south of the DEW line, a continent-wide chain of early warning radar stations built across Canada’s Arctic during the paranoia of the Cold War.
Parry Tender, 15, wants more from the town than he already has: an old Cree grandfather and his friend, Stacey Luke, who acts more like a boy than a girl. So, when a fluke atmospheric condition allows a Manhattan radio station to reach the north and announce a contest to visit New York, Parry and Luke think they’ve found their ticket out. But the arrival of the pretty daughter of an air force colonel turns the spring of 1958 into one of love, loss and rock’n’roll.
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