Wild Goose Moon: A Story of Love, Death, God, Sex and 1968 - Paperback

by Ben Shepperd (Author)

Molly Ivins, Texas columnist and wry observer of American culture, called 1968 "the year everything happened." 1968 finds America engulfed in political and racial turmoil, assassinations, and a war seemingly without end. The year finds Tom Windham trying to deal with a few of life's basics - love, death, God, and sex. A sophomore at a conservative university in Dallas and the veteran of an upbringing in a small East Texas town, Tom sits uncomfortably on the cusp of adulthood. He is joined there by his roommate Brandeis. Along with the young women in their lives, their college friends, and their families, they experience the joys, struggles and tragedies of the year on a human scale. While the events of the operatic year keep intervening, changes in American attitudes toward sex, race, women, war and religion are also reflected in Wild Goose Moon.

Author Biography

As a student in 1968 at a conservative southern university, Ben Shepperd was imprinted with the crosscurrents of that period while also experiencing great changes in his personal life. His story novelizes an overlay of those changes against what was going on in the country. Ben lives with his wife and cat in Savoy, Illinois.