Strife over a neighbor's dead aunt's mulberry dish, fishing in a pond for a species that does not exist there, a retired cowboy real estate entrepreneur, a neighborhood pervert who plays with electric trains and a strange disappearance, combine to produce a week of madness at a run-down, rented cottage for the Kilroy family in the summer of 1946. The Seven Day Year combines elements of humor, nostalgia and youthful mishchievousness, rendering a winsome story from a more innocent time. It is a novel filled with wondrous and humorous characters and events that transcend generational boundaries.