First published 2003
In 1984 Northern California, old friends and lovers reconnect, their lives still shaped by the radical '60s. Zoyd Wheeler, a former '60s radical, now scrapes by on government checks. His ex-wife, Frenesi, vanished years ago, drawn into a secret government program. Their daughter Prairie, a teenager, searches for clues about her mother's past. As the characters' orbits converge, they confront the ghosts of their radical youth and a less-than-harmonic convergence of love, betrayal, and the lasting consequences of rebellion.
Genres: literary-fiction, american-fiction, 20th-century, contemporary
Vibes: atmospheric, emotional, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Northern California
Period: 1984
385 pages · Hardcover · Little, Brown and Company