Title: Donna's Detour
Author: Jo Huddleston
Date: 2016
Publisher: Forget Me Not
Quote: "It was definitely the perfect guy she feasted her eyes on."
Donna's always had a crush on Tommy, but never made herself a pest about it, because he was her brother's best friend. Tommy's always felt sweet on Donna, but never wanted to intimidate her with his feelings, because he was her brother's best friend. Donna has moved to the town of Needles, California, which can still be perceived as a wild and dangerous place with all those riffraff driving through on the highway, because it's 1956. Can this couple get together?
Well, it's 1956, so the first step is to move Donna back to the town where Tommy works. Of course, Tommy asks her paternalistic employer for permission first, promising to take care of her. Then Tommy finds her a job in the company where he works. They are officially "just" friends, but co-workers buzz about the erotic tension between them. Distracting, barks the boss. One of them has to go and, this being 1956, it has to be the woman who's fired. On a Friday the boss orders Tommy to tell Donna not to come to work on the Monday. But of course, this being 1956, this only speeds up their romance.
When young women express ingratitude for the feminist movement (pointing to the extremists in the movement), this book may serve as a corrective. It's cringe, cringe, cringe, but it's historically accurate. If anything Donna is less harmed by 1950s misogyny than the average girl was/
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