Opposition
About This Book
Set against the New Left of 1960s America, this novel follows eight people in their twenties, four women and four men, who are driven by a strong wish to change the world. Their commitments draw them into the civil rights and antiwar movements. As the pressures of the Vietnam War and a country coming apart mount, the tangle of their passions and pains reaches a breaking point. The story begins in 1963, when the eight meet in a college town in the Midwest. Racist violence in the Deep South pulls them into the civil rights struggle, and all of them take part in demonstrations. Melissa, who is Black, travels to Mississippi to help with voter registration, while several of the others choose to organize in a poor white community in Cleveland. Sally has an illegal abortion along the way. As the war in Vietnam escalates and the community organizing falters, some of the group turn to antiwar projects, and Valerie goes to Mexico to study art. Matt, the son of a minister who supports the war, is called up by his draft board and has a powerful drug experience on his way into draft resistance. In August 1968 the group converge on Chicago during the Democratic Convention, where the police are hostile to them. Tempers flare and arguments break out amid street fights. Kurt rethinks confrontation and resolves to work with a liberal congressman to lobby for legislation to end the war. Ronnie, a radical filmmaker, and his lover Marcia, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, grow close to the recently formed Weathermen. The novel follows these eight lives toward a tragic conclusion.
ISBN: 9781771837361
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