It’s 1968, Los Angeles.A young white woman meets her boyfriend, Lucas, (a black singer and dancer with dazzling talent) at the victory celebration of RFK’s democratic bid for presidency.  As Lucas drives Annie home from RFK headquarters, and they are stopped at a traffic intersection by the lights of a police cruiser, the air is thick with unfulfilled bullying. Here Annie’s eyes are opened to the brutal racism that has been an invisible force in American life. An excerpt from the new, Sunbury-Press novel, KENNEDY GIRL by Caitlin Hicks.