The Boardwalk Menagerie

The Boardwalk Menagerie is a novel about an all American family, the Trevino's that migrate from Texas to California. It takes the reader through the Vietnam conflict, and the U.S.S. Forrestal fire, which was the biggest fire in US naval history. The novel also contains vaudeville, the carnival life, the big California earthquake in 1989, the California condor release, the three gray whales stuck under the ice in Alaska, and the swallows returning to San Juan Capistrano, California, on Saint Joseph's day, where David, the protagonist of the story, finally finds his lost love.