The Accident at 13th and Jefferson

The story opens on a peaceful summer afternoon in southeastern Pennsylvania at Josh Greenwood’s fourteenth birthday party and then random tragedy strikes. Is Josh’s mother, Bonnie, killed? (Book 1) or his father Tom? (Book 2) or Josh himself? (Book 3). As the survivors in each story attempt to carry on with help from a close friend and neighbor Elaine and her son Max, and interference from Bonnie’s dysfunctional family, their fates and even their personalities turn out very differently. And the degrees of connection extend to Max’s issues with the identity of his real father who, as it turns out, is a Presidential contender. The book ends with Book 4, only one scene, in which the original tragedy is averted. How much do we really know about anyone?