Our Song
Our Song
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In 1972 rural Pennsylvania, Lynda and JT’s connection was a magical, interracial, and controversial young love that grew through sharing late-night letters and songs—until their own insecurities let the people around them tear them apart. Four decades later, fate brings them back together—but is it too late?
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Our Song by Lynda Smith Hoggan
The year was 1972. The place was rural Pennsylvania. Civil rights, the Vietnam War, and counterculture youth who were defying their traditional parents had the nation in social upheaval. Lynda was white, an anxious but earnest free spirit studying poetry, peyote, and peaceful protest at her small university. JT was black, a talented athlete recruited from the inner city to win basketball games for Lynda's hometown college. Their chemistry was irresistible, but their schools were hours apart - so, in the days before email, cell phones, and video chat apps to connect them, they reached out to each other in the only way possible: letters. Songs and prose penned late into the night revealed a longing that neither had felt before. JT used music to show Lynda his sensitive side and deep desire for true love. Lynda strove to leave her conservative upbringing behind, to see truths beyond skin color and the pressure - for women, especially - to conform. But their connection, though deep, was also fragile. Racist parents, a jealous friend, and a prior lover who came back to claim Lynda ultimately unraveled the delicate fabric woven by their words. Now, four decades later, Lynda and JT may have another chance. Can they take it? This sensual memoir by human sexuality professor Lynda Smith Hoggan lays bare the raw contradictions between social expectations and the heart's desires - and leaves readers pondering what love might look like in a world where we are truly free.
Lynda Smith Hoggan is Professor Emeritus of Health and Human Sexuality at Mt. San Antonio College in Southern California. She has also been a professional gift shop duster, bra strap counter, playground instructor, army base secretary, garment district house model, barmaid, go-go dancer, high school teacher, technical writer, sex educator, and amateur martini taster. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Westwind: UCLA Journal of the Arts, the Los Angeles Times, Cultural Daily, the anthology Art in the Time of Unbearable Crisis and more. She blogs at www.lyndasmithhoggan.com. She lives in Sacramento, CA.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781647423896 |
| ISBN 10 | 1647423899 |
| Title | Our Song |
| Author | Lynda Smith Hoggan |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | She Writes Press |
| Year published | 2022-10-11 |
| Number of pages | 328 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |