内容简介：
This is a book within a book in which Julia Eller recalls her tell-all novel, which made her famous and exposed her hometown. Although the story is fictional, it is loosely based upon Ms. Harperas childhood memories of comical people, historical events and familiar places. The title evolves from the horrific day that JFK was assassinated; Lizzie Greene, praying that she is only dreaming, tries desperately to change the channel from the ongoing drama of the assassination, but finds that it is no dream. Her beloved president is dead. The civil rights movement is the backdrop for the story. Early on, through a vicious classmate, Lizzie discovers, unbeknownst to her, that her dead mother was Jewish. Lizzie, whose father, Nathaniel, is a forerunner in the civil rights movement, learns early about prejudice in her nation. When a local beautician is found dead at the city lake, Lizzie and her family are pulled into the mystery when Lizzie finds the dead womanas diary. Social issues that plagued our nation during that period in history run rampant within the bittersweet novel. Readers who enjoy historical fiction will be brought back to 1963.