Candlebrook is a memoir of growing up in a Catholic family living in a suburb of Philadelphia in the late 1950s and 1960s. Laced with candor and humor, Candlebrook takes the reader through the author's childhood and into his early 20s. The tale ends the night before he reports for military service in the summer of 1968. Overlaid with national and world events, this revealing and poignant memoir will be entertaining terrain for Baby Boomers.