1969: Love and Promised Peace

"In 1969 Love and Promised Peace, I love how the characters struggle to stop an insane war, save the environment, and learn to love each other. Sounds very familiar to me. These issues are as important today as they were fifty years ago.
Graham Nash, two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee
Author, Wild Tales : A Rock and Roll Life

David refuses to fight his father's war, only to fight a greater battle within. Abandoned at a young age by his father, an Admiral involved in secret bombing, and sent to grow up in military school, David refuses to fight in Vietnam. The estrangement of father and son, like the nation divided, is an open wound that refuses to heal until the novel's climax. Overcoming emotional abandonment, David's journey includes sex, psychedelics, soul-searching psychotherapy, and the sweeping changes of the sixties.

Raised by a stay-at-home mother, we see Linda evolve from "Little Miss Sunshine," to a sister mourning her brother, to a protester arrested by the FBI, to a national celebrity of the antiwar movement. Linda also becomes the woman who can help David with her transformational power of love. The characters in this novel bring to life compelling issues of the sixties that include struggling for peace, becoming authentic people, and creating lasting love. Their journey takes us to the first walk on the moon, the Santa Barbara oil spill leading to a national environmental movement, women redefining their role in everything, hippies, music, and the celebration at Woodstock.