During all this time she’s kept a close eye on Brent. He has inexplicable mood swings. Sometimes he goes off biking across town and up the arduous road to the top of Mount Zion. Sometimes he unexpectedly snaps at her, or at Kurt, who is in his last year of studies at Gogebic Community College; he is planning to transfer to Wayne State University in Detroit to finish his B.A. degree in mass communications. Johnny has already joined the Air Force, where he is stationed in Stuttgart, Germany. Brent spends a lot of time in his room where he reads science fiction books borrowed from the library. She would never tell him this, but she is proud of his excellent mathematics skills. She prays that he’ll go to a four-year university somewhere.
She overhears on television that some high schools have
