Coming of age in the 1970s, Will Taylor searches for love and a sense of significance through sports, music, drugs, and sex. A religious conversion radically transforms him, but during the era of Ronald Reagan and the Moral Majority, he becomes disillusioned with his church and even his own faith. Mired in his daily routines, Will is haunted by the memory of an unrequited love from his high school days until unexpected events compel him toward decisions that alter his life’s trajectory.
This novel gives voice to the angst of Generation Jones, the younger Baby Boomers who missed out on the material prosperity of the 1960s and the supposed peace and love of the hippies. Like visitors arriving late to a party, they were “jonesing” for more than what was left to them.
Vividly recreating an earlier time without cloying nostalgia, the author navigates the conflicts familiar to most everybody making their way through the perplexities of life and counterfeit love in an effort to find the real thing.
Ray Sikes 