Fourteen-year-old Homer Macauley is determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger anyone has ever seen. His older brother has gone to war|
leaving Homer to look after his widowed mother| his older sister and his 4-year-old brother| Ulysses. And so it is that as spring turns to summer| 1942| Homer
Macauley delivers messages of love| hope| pain... and death... to the good people of Ithaca. And Homer Macauley will grapple with one message that will change him
forever. Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Saroyan's 1943 novel| The Human Comedy| ITHACA is a coming-of-age story about the exuberance of youth| the
abruptness of change| the sweetness of life| the sting of death| and the sheer goodness that lives in each and every one of us.
