1967 through 1969: The United States is embroiled in an unjust and illegal war. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bobby Kennedy are assassinated. College campuses explode in riots and rebellions. Cultural and religious norms are challenged. Out of this tangled thicket of national chaos, comes a story told through the poetic voice of Sylver Smith who, after surviving a near-fatal accident, examines her life to find it lacking and without purpose. At twenty-eight, Sylvi is a mother, a career woman, and a lost soul who looks for life's answers in the next party, or the next drink, or the next many...