Young Adult Book Reading Challenges discussion

Struggling with love herself, a young woman learns there are different types of love when an old man tells her the story of her mother’s first love.

Precious few individuals will marry their high school sweetheart and live happily ever after. This story is about the rest of us. It is about the four loves C. S. Lewis describes in his book by the same name.

Dandelion Man is set in and around the city of Detroit during the late 60’s and early 70’s a time of the Age of Aquarius, Hair and free love. But don’t expect all that, this is the Eros side of love not the Venus side.

Wally arrives at the funeral of the father of his first love where he meets dee once again after forty years greeting her with a kiss on the forehead. Dee introduces her dear friend to her twenty something daughter, Corinne. They get to chatting and the daughter recognizes him from bits and pieces of stories her mom shared with her growing up. “Oh, my god, you’re dandelion man” she exclaims. Anxious to learn what her mother was like as a teenager, the two make plans to meet for dinner where the protagonist reminisces about his first love and provides the daughter insights into a unique facet of her mom.

Dandelion Man is a fictional memoire dealing with the difficult decisions that crop up in relationships.