In the Wake of Our Past

<p>Wars come home with those who fight them—in a body bag marred by injury or living with a damaged soul. In 1973 Phin Davis returns from the Vietnam War with a stop at the Denver VA Hospital while fighting haunting images of death and struggling to find a personal reason for being alive. His father Harry had returned from war in 1945 after the USS Indianapolis delivered parts for the bomb dropped on Hiroshima and then sank giving up so many of its sailors to the “gray men” below the surface. Still Harry makes his living from the sea as a commercial fisherman. Completing the triad is Johnny Cobb Harry’s self-adopted “brother” who is the great-grandson of an African slave. Nurtured by Native American spiritualism Cobb helps them both heal despite tragedy in his own young life. Johnny has never experienced war but he protects Vietnam vets and gives them work kinship and solace as each follows his own physical and psychological path to wellness. <br />Set in the American South between 1950 and 1973 In the Wake of Our Past weaves multiple tales of self-discovery after loss as each character learns how not be defined by personal tragedy. Phin Harry Johnny and their extended family and friends are not just survivors but echoes of war’s thunder who learn to love again and have peace in their lives.</p>