The Frog-Eyed Gospel

<p> In a steamy East Texas town surrounded by oilfield grit and 1960s racial tension devout eighteen-year-old Peter Loucas faces the prospect of the Viet Nam draft. The sudden death of his father and then his witness of a lynching thrust him headlong into a fraught adulthood. A summer job in the oilfield leads to a taboo connection with Swat a black veteran of the Korean War. While his community tries to keep him on track Pete finds a confidant in Gwynn a Berkely student temporarily stranded in Texas. The tug-of-war between Pete's beliefs and the newly discovered complexity around morality and integrity force Pete into a dangerous spiritual reckoning.</p><p>   This debut novel in which landscape is a character in its own right weaves together the pain the joy and the unexpected twists in creating a life that can be lived with.</p><p></p><p>.</p>