num_pages: 253
description: In the United States, life boiled over in the late sixties and early seventies. Those who were there will never forget. In the autumn of 1968, Amy St. Claire, a young, disenchanted housewife, believes that enrolling in graduate school will enliven her banal existence. She has no idea that the tides of history are about to remold her into a “liberated woman.” That same autumn Matthew Boyer is just back from the war in Viet Nam. While bearing his inner turmoil and trying to build an academic career, he struggles to adopt a wounded child he saved from a horrific firefight. With surprising outcomes Amy and Matthew’s friendship carries them through those several turbulent years, producing two entirely new American personality types, born from war and social revolution. In this compelling account of two lives intertwining, at first in need and then in love, we witness the painful but often joyous transition of the Baby Boom Generation from its innocent beginnings to the very changed world we know today. Those who were there will recognize themselves in these pages. Those who have come after will experience here the boiling forces of those amazing times.
language: English
title: Life Boiling Over
titlecomplete: Life Boiling Over
publisher: PublishAmerica