A Season of Gifts

How would you like to meet your new neighbor while tied up hanging in her outhouse with nothing on?!? I listened to the audio book version, and the story was so engaging. It takes place in the 1950s as you can see from the old car on the cover of the book. The narrator is the fourteen year old son of a preacher whose family has just moved to a small town.  And their new neighbor happens to be Grandma Dowdel. You may know her from Peck's other novels. She is a hilarious, gritty, salt of the earth, independent older character who befriends the narrator's younger sister. I kept reading this book to see what she was going to do next! The book had a great message about gifts but I was so wrapped up in this story I didn't even notice until the end of the book.