project 2: fictional novel

summary: this project is a fictional novel about a boy born to a midwest couple in post-world war 11 america, a time when the united states was the envy of the world.

his parents have great hopes for their son, their marriage and their country, but they discover the 1950s and 1960s will not always be kind to any of them.

history books tell the story of that period of time with chapters devoted to such things as the civil rights movement and the cold war. historians cannot, however, truly capture how those events played out in the lives of a real american famiy.

status: partial first draft completed.