The Change Chronicles: A Novel of the Sixties Antiwar Movement

Amid the antiwar and feminist movements of late-1960s Berkeley, California, a young, self-questioning woman seeks new ways to live and love. Left pregnant by a flamboyant activist, she flings herself into the nonviolent vigil at the gates of Port Chicago, shipping point for weapons to the Vietnam War. There she discovers the depths of the vigilers' mutual caring and comes to love Ted, a vigil leader. On the night Ted races forward to halt an onrushing weapons truck, she breaks past her years of self-doubt and fear, and risks all-freedom, life, even the child she bears-to stand beside him."A triumph-a book to share and discuss. . . . Illuminates the transformations experienced by brave people at the center of movements"-Wesley Hogan, Director, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University"A tale of one deeply aware woman overcoming barriers-the 'Marines of your mind'-to walk down a rural highway and face an onrushing napalm truck"-Gar Smith (Editor Emeritus, Earth Island Journal), in Berkeley Daily Planet"The story of the betrayal of a woman-and a generation-told with the raw intensity and credibility of someone who was there"-Maya Khankhoje, contributing editor, Montreal Serai"Beautifully crafted personal and political coming-of-age story. Haunting"-Mei-Mei Ellerman, Resident Scholar, Brandeis Women's Research Center