Hoosier Hysteria

Indiana University September 1963. Meri Henriques a naïve freshman from New York arrives on campus thinking she's about to enroll at an idyllic Midwestern college. Instead she discovers a storm is brewing. <br> An intriguing cast of characters inhabits Meri's new and often troubled world: Katherine Pixie Gates Meri's charming and quirky roommate; Rachel brilliant and sarcastic fellow New Yorker; Daniel a tough radical with a tender heart; folk singer Derek Stone Meri's crush; and Shennandoah Waters a white coed who only dates black men or exotic foreigners much to her ultra-conservative parents' horror. <br> Over the course of Meri's first year at college tragedy strikes twice: John Kennedy is assassinated and a young black IU basketball player is castrated and thrown into a ditch--murdered for dating a white coed. And finally that year's commencement ceremonies bring an infamous symbol of white supremacy to campus endangering anyone who dared to protest--thrusting Meri into the middle of violent and escalating racial tensions. Vivid and compelling <i>Hoosier Hysteria</i> is a timely story of prejudice and political unrest that today more than ever before must be told.