Needing to earn money after his father's death during the influenza epidemic of 1918, thirteen-year-old Joshua works as a newspaper boy in Boston, one day finding himself in the vicinity of an
explosion that sends tons of molasses coursing through the streets.After his father's death during the influenza epidemic of 1918, thirteen-year-old Joshua works as a newspaper boy in Boston,
one day finding himself in the vicinity of an explosion that sends molasses coursing through the streets.