From the intimacy of small town America to big city life, from World War II to 9/11, In the Meantime vividly encapsulates an unforgettable era. On a hot summer's day in 1931, three-five-year-olds meet on a dusty street in a small Midwestern town, beginning a friendship that will last all their lives. Through the years of their ever-entwined adult lives some dreams are realized while others grow dim, but one constant remains: their bond of friendship. At the books end some seventy years after it began, only on eof them remians to tell the story of their lives, and of what happened ...in the meantime.