02044cam a2200313 i 4500 388839232 TxAuBib 20180407120000.0 160104s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780307744814 0307744817 TxAuBib rda Smiley, Jane, 1949- Early Warning / Jane Smiley. First Anchor Books edition. New York : Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2016. 475 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Last Hundred Years: A Family Saga ; 2 Early Warning opens in 1953 with the Langdon family at a crossroads. Their stalwart patriarch Walter, who with his wife Rosanna, sustained their farm for three decades, has suddenly died, leaving their five children, now adults, looking to the future. Only one will remain in Iowa to work the land, while the others scatter to Washington, D.C., California, and everywhere in between. As the country moves out of post-World War II optimism through the darker landscape of the Cold War and the social and sexual revolutions of the 1960s and '70s, and then into the unprecedented wealth - for some - of the early 1980s, the Langdon children each follow a different path in a rapidly changing world. And they now have children of their own: twin boys who are best friends and vicious rivals; a girl whose rebellious spirit takes her to the notorious Peoples Temple in San Francisco; and a golden boy who drops out of college to fight in Vietnam - leaving behind a secret legacy that will send shock waves through the Langdon family into the next generation. 20161220. Rural Families Iowa Fiction. Social Change United States History 20th century Fiction. Iowa Fiction. Historical Fiction. Last Hundred Years: A Family Saga ; 2.