Once Upon a Summer — Janice Daugharty

Young Jim and Sissy are starving, so their mother sends them 20 miles by train to the country home of their father's mother to feed them for the summer. Their father, the community drunk, who lives with his mother and the rest of the put-out, pious family, doesn't speak to his children till they are about to go home, and then it is with startling coldness...