The Goodbye-Love Generation: A Novel In Stories - Contemporary Fiction About Modern Relationships | Perfect for Book Clubs & Literary Fiction Lovers
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PRAISE FOR THE GOODBYE-LOVE GENERATION"A novel of beautiful, searing stories that show us the insidious tentacles of war, and how they become part of the DNA we pass down through place and ravaged hearts."— Rita Dragonette, Author of The Fourteenth of September"A creative & imagistic rollercoaster [...] You will experience the heights of joy & fulfillment & the depths of sadness & failure [...] & find beauty in the flawed humanity of the characters that echoes our own experiences during & after tragedy."—The Blue Mountain ReviewKent, Ohio, 1969: The Purple Orange is rapidly becoming one of the most popular bands in northeastern Ohio's thriving music scene. Guitarist Alex Johnson is struggling to escape his painful and abusive past through his musical ambitions, while their impulsive lead singer, Maddy Winters, is turning heads with her captivating voice and larger-than-life personality.But when the shootings at Kent State in May, 1970 shatter the group and their expectations of stardom, they each must come to terms with how the tragedy defines their art, relationships, and politics—and how it will shape their identities in the years to come.Set over a period of fifty years, The Goodbye-Love Generation explores the lives of its cast of interconnected characters as it examines not just the Vietnam era and its lingering effects, but the decisions we all must make for the future as we interpret the events of the past.
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Reading this book I felt the author must be my literary spirit-child. I featured the shootings at Kent State as they happened in The Fourteenth of September, my novel about young people on campus during the Vietnam War. Morgan has taken its impact to the next generation, showing how the incident and it's scars have marked the place, Kent, Ohio and those who are "of it" --on-site or born into the legacy of this battlefield that was not on the front. Charting the dissolution of a rock band as the central casualty of the conflict, Morgan brings us stories of characters affected in ways obvious and not: The angry lead singer who blows the band's big chance, the guitarist's lover who feels she owes her enlisted fiance one more night instead of a Dear John letter, the lost teenager who seeks out the aging bass player for solace who later as an adult tries to offer than same comfort to a foster daughter who has made one of the Kent State victims into her imaginary friend. This is a novel of beautiful, searing stories that show us the insidious tentacles of war, and how they become part of the DNA we pass down through place and ravaged hearts. A magnificent achievement, I'll be recommending like crazy.
