Within You Without You: a novel

Davis and Becca first meet in the latrine lines at Woodstock, initiating a blissful, music-fueled infatuation. When their paths cross again on the Kent State campus, he’s a (somewhat reluctant) National Guardsman and she’s a campus radical. Davis’s world is turned upside down when he inadvertently fires his M-1 toward the crowd of protesters. How do they reconcile their obvious differences once he finds her again? How does he deal with the burden of guilt he carries over his mis-taken shot? Woven through this backdrop is an ancient ritual of “grafting:” a mutual sharing of flesh. Will Davis and Becca’s ardent desire to access the inside world of the other—to “KNOW” them—give them the answers they are looking for as they struggle with trust and truth? When Becca’s forays into esoteric practices threaten her very existence, can she find her way back? If they do decide to graft, what aspects of the other will they take on? And where DID Davis’s bullet land? Follow these two very human characters through unreal circumstances and personal growth in a coming-of-age journey through this turbulent time in American history.