Route 66 Sweetheart tells the story of a young woman growing up in Rutherford, New Jersey, in the 1930s. Marion (Mid) Lacy traces her ancestry back to the early New World Settlement of Nantucket and will become the matriarch of a Midwestern family. As a young woman, though, her dreams of the future overshadowed by more brilliant siblings and friends. In an era of hard times haunted by the prospect of approaching world war, she learns that all are...