Intimacy and And Fictional Hippies - EP529

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Jeff Rasley :
The book is a fictional memoir of an 18-year-old hitchhiking across the country in 1972. But it was inspired by the humorous, bizarre, and scary experiences I had hitchhiking from Northern Indiana to Key West and then to New Orleans for Mardi Gras, after dropping out of college for a term. On the road, Jack meets gypsies, tramps, and thieves, Good Samaritans, and Jesus in a Ferrari. He has romantic encounters, is accosted by sexual predators, and is challenged about his own sexual identity. Fanatic "religious" cultists "flirty fish" Jack, and he is given shelter by anti-war and civil rights activists, hippies, and military veterans living by a "pay it forward" ethic. Jack even encounters, as I did, two candidates campaigning to be the nominee of the Democratic Party for the US Presidency, George Wallace and Shirley Chisholm (she kissed me on the cheek!).
1972 was also a time of political polarization, which is described in the story through encounters with disaffected Vietnam War vets and those who thought you should "love it or leave it", student radicals and gun-toting "patriots", civil rights advocates and segregationists. I witnessed the deep divide of that era's polarization by attending George Wallace for President and Shirley Chisholm for President rallies at the University of Miami.
The book tells a coming of age story through the voices of a naive young man and an older and wiser one. In the youth s quest for adventure and independence he rediscovers the importance of family, friends, and community. There s no place like home.
Jack, the protagonist, also comes to understand, as I did, that learning through experience and formal academic-education are both worthy quests.
The link is https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CPVR4TLJ