Pushing Bobby's Cadillac

<p>It’s 1968 and Aiken Day’s life is in chaos. </p><p>Living in Windsor Ontario he suffers bleak visions and nightmares—flashbacks to the killing the slaughter of the Essex Scottish Regiment on the shale beaches of Dieppe. His wife the elegant former professor Paris Day has run off with a civil rights group whose members have traded peaceful protests for violent bank heists and their son Adam  a young black man in a white white world seems ready to follow in her footsteps. </p><p>While Aiken sets off to discover the truth behind an FBI story about his wife Bobby Kennedy and his team criss-cross the US on his run for the Democratic nomination for the presidency campaigning to end racial discrimination and the Vietnam war. </p><p>A sprawling Pynchonesque novel that spans Canada and the US <em>Pushing Bobby’s Cadillac</em> explores the hope and anguish spawned by the year 1968.</p>