America Was Hard To Find Kathleen Alcott by Kathleen Alcott 9780062662545, 9782018037865, 2018037862, 0062662546, 2018036321 instant download after payment.

Ecuador, 1969: An American expatriate, Fay Fern, sits in the corner of a restaurant, she & her young son Wright turned away from the television where Vincent Kahn becomes the first man to walk on the moon. 

Years earlier, Fay & Vincent meet at a pilots’ bar in the Mojave Desert. Both seemed poised for reinvention—the married test pilot, Vincent, as an astronaut; the spurned child of privilege, Fay, as an activist. Their casual affair ends quickly, but its consequences linger. 

Though their lives split, their senses of purpose deepen in tandem, each becoming heroes to different sides of the political spectrum of the 1960s & 70s: Vincent an icon with no plan beyond the mission for which he has single-mindedly trained, Fay a leader of a violent leftist group whose anti-Vietnam actions make her one of the FBI’s most wanted. With her last public appearance, a demonstration that frames the Apollo program as a vehicle for distracting the American public from its country’s atrocities, Fay leaves Wright to contend with her legacy, his own growing apathy, & the misdeeds of both his mother & his country. 

An immense, vivid reimagining of the Cold War era, America Was Hard to Find traces the fallout of the cultural revolution that divided the country & explores the meaning of individual lives in times of upheaval. It also confirms Kathleen Alcott’s reputation as a fearless & vital voice in fiction.

Born in 1988 in Northern California, KATHLEEN ALCOTT is the author of the novels Infinite Home & The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets. Her short stories & nonfiction have appeared in Zoetrope: All Story, ZYZZYVA, the Guardian, Tin House, etc.