You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere. - Ursula K. LeGuin

Oliver Cross was in his first year of law school when, in 1968 in Chicago, he attends a peace demonstration with a friend and his life changes forever. After his brother is killed in Vietnam, he leaves the life planned for him by his father, searches out the woman he loves, and heads to the hills.

Fifty years later he has become an embittered old man, alienated from his family for choices he made, when he learns his oldest granddaughter is missing.

And this is the story of his search for her and his journey back in time (figuratively).

I loved Oliver's character. The author shows him as a complex man with a storied past. All the characters are well-drawn, not necessarily likeable, but we'll-drawn.

The story takes us from the East coast towards the West coast, from dreary drug houses to a commune in the foothills of the Colorado Rockies.

This is a story of the good and bad in people, the weak and strong, and it's well worth reading.

I received this book from Amazon Publishing through Net Galley in the hopes that I would read it and leave an unbiased review.

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