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Diehl spins a story of four families, completely different, searching to weather out the Great Depression on a Colorado farm. The Fox family is well educated but has been drown in the despair of alcoholism. Daniel Fox is the accepted leader of the farm, who considers his words before speaking them. His wife, Margaret is the rational realist to Daniel’s dreamy idealist. Their daughter, Ruth Ann, is a teenager blossoming in her own sexuality and their four-year-old has recently developed a wild imagination. The Blake family is the opposite of the Fox family. They are "uneducated hillbillies," yet Martin Blake is a hard worker, but a lousy father to his six children. Carol, his wife, is an excellent compliment to her husband, but she has difficulties understanding the complexities of the commune life. Their oldest daughter, Carol Lee, is also discovering her own sexuality and is ready to explore the feeling inside her.

The most honorable and closest family, the Mahoney family, headed by John and Mary, try to pass down their solid Midwestern values to their three children. Their teenage sons, Mark and Matt, however, are the targets for the sexual release of the two girls. The Benson family comes for the experience. Ed Benson is cultured but naïve, while his pregnant wife is a spoiled rich girl, with a two-year old son and a penchant for flirting with any man that walks. Finally, PT Grubner saunters onto the farm, young, single and without a past.

Relationships develop and disintegrate and morals strengthen and crumble as the families interact in the single family farmhouse in this testament to time and insightful look into human relationships.

Diehl was born near Grand Junction, Colorado., and survived the Great Depression. He joined the Army shortly after graduation from Evergreen High School, near Vancouver, WA. He later graduated from Central Washington University with a degree in history and education. He began to teach in the 1960’s, but since there was a surplus of history teachers and he was proficient in math, he was assigned to teach that, then later English, in a career that lasted 32 years. He married his high school sweetheart and raised two boys and two girls, who have given them eight grandchildren. Inspired by John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath, Diehl decided to write a book based loosely on his family’s live. Where We Are is his first book, but he has five sequels on the way. Visit www.1stbooks.com/bookview/13811 for a preview of the book.

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