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Ecuador, 1969: An American expatriate, Fay Fern, sits in the corner of a restaurant, she and her young son, Wright, turned away from the television where Vincent Kahn becomes the first man to walk on the moon.
Years earlier, Fay and Vincent meet at a pilots' bar in the Mojave Desert. Both seem poised for reinvention--the married test pilot, Vincent, as an astronaut; the spurned child of privilege, Fay, as an expatriate. Their casual affair ends quickly, but its consequences linger.
Though their lives split, their senses of purpose deepen in tandem, each becoming heroes to different sides of the political spectrum of the 1960s and '70s: Vincent an icon with no plan beyond the mission for which he has single-mindedly trained, Fay a leader of a violent leftist group whose anti-Vietnam actions make her one of the FBI's most wanted. With her last public appearance, a demonstration that frames the Apollo program as a vehicle for distracting the American public from its country's atrocities, Fay leaves Wright to contend with her legacy, his own growing apathy, and the misdeeds of both his mother and his country.
An immense, vivid reimagining of the Cold War era, America Was Hard to Find traces the fallout of the cultural revolution that divided the country and explores the meaning of individual lives in times of upheaval. It also confirms Kathleen Alcott's reputation as a fearless and vital voice in fiction.
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- Title America Was Hard to Find
- Author Kathleen Alcott
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 432
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ecco Press
- ISBN 9780062662538 / 0062662538
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.3 x 1.2 in (20.32 x 13.46 x 3.05 cm)
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- Topical: Family
- Dewey Decimal Code 813.6
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