My guess is that the main character, PFC Judy Talton, wakes herself up politically by joining the campus anti-Vietnam War movement on her nineteenth birthday. The publisher describes the book as a “coming of conscience novel.” I read the book trying to make sense of that description. This complex novel is, in essence, an inquiry into the domestic politics of protest when the world seems to stop making any sense. That’s when she witnessed a confrontation between ROTC trainees and antiwar student demonstrators who were not sympathetic to those who had ended up in ROTC. Kindle) is based on her personal experiences as a college student during the Vietnam War beginning in September 1969. Rita Dragonette’s novel, The Fourteenth of September (She Writes Press, 376 pp., $16.95, paper $8.69.
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