Two Fledglings

In his novel Two Fledglings, author Michael Dusenberry, with vivid imagery and colorful, expressive dialogue, tells the coming of age story of Owen Davidson and Carol Przywalski. Set in the 1960’s in a fictitious town in America’s northeast, we see Owen and Carol, so naturally drawn to each other, struggle with their inner demons and with the class divisions and parental disapprovals that eventually drive them apart. Owen the son of upper middle class Anglo parents; Carol the daughter of working class Polish immigrants.