Standing in the Rainbow by Fannie Flagg is one of those delightful homespun tales that you almost wish were true if it weren't for all the bad things that happened. The setting is rural Missouri, Elmwood Springs to be exact, in the 1940's. Little Bobby Smith is growing up and we get to grow up with him and experience the decades following WW II and the politics that just might be representative of small town USA. There is love, hate, birth, death, saving and killing. All sort of tied together with Neighbor Dorothy's daily radio program which reaches all of central U.S.A.
I was afraid the book was just a collection of very short character descriptions when it finally began to take shape and tell a real story. Then I could barely wait for the next chapter to see what was going to happen. Fine book with no cuss words or explicit sex or violence.
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