In 1967, William T. Foster, Sr., a 34-year-old Army Reserve is called to Vietnam and lost in actions. He leaves his beloved wife, Sarah Ann, daughter, Lila , and 14-year-old son, William Jr. They live in a trailer on the coast of Maine, and parked beside the trailer is William Sr.'s beautiful but unreliable lobster boat, the Sarah Ann.The December afternoons are lonely and dark for Will and Lila, who must come home from school alone while their mother works. They start to get scared when they notice evidence that someone has been visiting the trailer, and when they come home to find a hard-drinking, somewhat smelly old ghost watching TV, it takes them a while to realize he's . . . Sant Claus.What Santa does with the lobster boat and how he handles Will's one and only Christmas dream ("All I want for Christmas is my Dad back") is the story of The Boat of Dreams.
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In 1967, William T. Foster, Sr., a 34-year-old Army Reserve is called to Vietnam and lost in actions. He leaves his beloved wife, Sarah Ann, daughter, Lila , and 14-year-old son, William Jr. They live in a trailer on the coast of Maine, and parked beside the trailer is William Sr.'s beautiful but unreliable lobster boat, the Sarah Ann.The December afternoons are lonely and dark for Will and Lila, who must come home from school alone while their mother works. They start to get scared when they notice evidence that someone has been visiting the trailer, and when they come home to find a hard-drinking, somewhat smelly old ghost watching TV, it takes them a while to realize he's . . . Sant Claus.What Santa does with the lobster boat and how he handles Will's one and only Christmas dream ("All I want for Christmas is my Dad back") is the story of The Boat of Dreams.
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