Beyond All Sense and Reason

<p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)></em><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>It's not so easy being colored is it? I asked him.</em></strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Jackie half-smiled at my remark.</em></strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Nope he said. It's not. Not always. Not every day.</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p>Life can be complicated when you're a fifteen year-old white male with eight siblings a twin sister a best friend who's African American and a racist girlfriend who's the daughter of an arrogant hot-tempered member of the Ku Klux Klan. Especially if you're growing up in 1963 the Civil Rights era in Birmingham Alabama a place once widely known as the <em>Most Segregated City in America</em>.</p><p><br></p><p>This is the hometown of Mickey McQuade his twin sister Marti and Mickey's best friend Jackie Thomas ordinary teenagers living in extraordinary times forced to confront an unstable hate-laden and sometimes violent world.</p><p><br></p><p><em>Beyond All Sense and Reason</em> is the debut novel of Mike Diccicco award-winning Philadelphia ad copywriter turned author someone who grew up during the sixties in Birmingham who lived through a time of anger bigotry and tumult and who still remembers the heroic people and historic moments that changed American society forever.</p>