Traveling a Slant Rhyme: 1973-1974 (Lissa Power Series) - Softcover

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When twenty-something Lissa’s father dies at age ninety-four, she finds herself suddenly released from a lifetime of caregiving duties and paternal strictures. She escapes her sheltered American childhood, attends university in France, loses her virginity to a Lebanese medical student, forms friendships with an assortment of international students, and vagabonds around Europe on a Eurail Pass. As a French major, Lissa’s goal is straightforward: to improve her French as she completes her junior year abroad. But this year, 1973–1974, turns out to be a pivotal one. Accosted by troubling news from the United States—gas shortages, the erupting Watergate scandal—and exposed firsthand to a daily clash of diverse cultures, Lissa awakens to aspirations that go far beyond traditional academic credentials. Ultimately, Lissa seeks a truth that is broader than the one she grew up with. She dreams of carrying on the creative efforts of great American woman authors who, over the generations, have expressed an expanding vision. Seized by a fledgling French major’s rudimentary exposure to Sartre’s existentialism, she yearns to claim her infinite freedom and make authentic choices despite the constraints imposed by politics and history. She yearns to escape the grip of bad faith and take responsibility for the decisions she makes. Traveling a Slant Rhyme: 1973-1974 is Book 2 in the Lissa Power series. It is a sequel to At the Far End of Nowhere, in which Lissa tells her own story of growing up in a rapidly changing, post-World War II America.

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