Voices at the Quarry

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This is a novel of time and place in America set in a small Appalachian Christian college town. It begins in 1960, a time of both optimism of a growing economy and the JFK presidency and the growing concern with the Cold War with Russia capturing the moment and threat of the Cuban Missile Crisis. It ends four years later as graduation day nears. It is more the relationship of two very different and similar boys who meet as freshman roommates at a small college in 1960 and how that relationship changes as the reality of campus life and pending adulthood affects both boys individually and collectively and consequences of the decisions both make. It is a story of the culture and morality of the day and the view of the world they inhabit.