Fiction Review

Think Back to Tomorrow
by David Truskoff
ISBN-10: 1401079733
Review by Heather Froeschl

It is 2002 and Hank Lesko is in the hospital awaiting surgery in the morning. His wife prompts him to remember when they'd met some 50 years previous. He takes the time to think back on his youth, his football days, his boot camp time, his Navy gig, his first love, and meeting his lifetime partner. This look back is a history lesson come alive for the reader, and is a tender story of life in America.

Hank was a genius and Hank was a football player. His first love was immeasurable in a time when war made men and women of teens, overnight. The Navy proved a rite of passage like no other and turned out men changed forever. Hank made lifelong friends and faced life-altering events with the steadfastness of a man twice his age. He loved passionately, and accepted fate fiercely.

The story follows a young man coming of age, finding love, discovering himself, and finding love again. It is a classic American tale, well written and richly described. David Truskoff offers a glimpse at the pain and passion of becoming a man during the 1940's. It was a time when life choices were made for the youth who would put their lives on the line and there was little they could do about it. No one could control their feelings though, and "Think Back to Tomorrow" certainly proves that.

Readers will laugh and cry with the characters in this book; they will get lost in a world that is all too real and true. Well done!