Our Song : A Memoir of Love and Race

She Writes Press

Our SongA Memoir of Love and Race\nAuthor(s): Lynda Hoggan\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Simon And Schuster Group USA, United States\nImprint: She Writes Press\nISBN-13: 9781647423896, 978-1647423896\nSynopsis\nThe year was 1972. The place was rural Pennsylvania. Civil rights, the Vietnam War, and counterculture youth who were defying their traditional parents had the nation in social upheaval. Lynda was white, an anxious but earnest free spirit studying poetry, peyote, and peaceful protest at her small university. JT was black, a talented athlete recruited from the inner city to win basketball games for Lynda's hometown college. Their chemistry was irresistible, but their schools were hours apart - so, in the days before email, cell phones, and video chat apps to connect them, they reached out to each other in the only way possible: letters. Songs and prose penned late into the night revealed a longing that neither had felt before. JT used music to show Lynda his sensitive side and.