In 1966, Alice Mucklehausen moved with her family to a small town where she found herself the new girl in her seventh grade class and, as an American, experienced the coupled hospitality and hostility greeting those from south of the border the Canadian border, that is. Half a century later, prodded by an insistent Memory, Alice reviews those poignant and often comedic days of adolescent despair and immigrant angst and reconsiders her role in the relationships and events that transpired.