{"id":7531,"date":"2023-08-15T14:49:53","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T21:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/?p=7531"},"modified":"2024-07-20T15:58:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T22:58:21","slug":"a-vicious-beating-just-for-having-a-white-girl-in-his-truck-with-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/a-vicious-beating-just-for-having-a-white-girl-in-his-truck-with-him\/","title":{"rendered":"A vicious beating just for having a white girl in his truck with him"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kennedy Girl<\/h4>\n

Review by Kay McCracken<\/h4>\n

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I enjoyed reliving American history of the tumultuous 60\u2019s through the eyes and emotions of Annie Shea in Caitlin Hicks\u2019 new novel\u00a0<\/em>Kennedy Girl<\/em>.<\/strong> Annie is the compelling protagonist in Caitlin\u2019s first best-selling novel\u00a0A Theory of Expanded Love<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

In this sequel novel Annie is getting ready to go off to college, although she and her Conservative Catholic father don\u2019t see eye to eye on where she should go.<\/p>\n

Annie begins to keep secrets from her family. She has a great singing role in the production of\u00a0Hair.<\/em>\u00a0Her parents don\u2019t really know what that\u2019s about, or that Annie\u2019s fallen in love with the charismatic Lucas, a talented black boy in the production.<\/p>\n

This is a time when race relations are simmering dangerously, ready to explode. Annie is volunteering for Bobby Kennedy\u2019s campaign to become president; she becomes a Kennedy Girl, one of the young women who support him for president, another secret Annie is keeping from her Republican parents.<\/p>\n

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There are many twists and turns in the narrative: hope for the future of social justice is shattered with the assassination of Bobby Kennedy; Lucas endures a vicious beating at the hands of the police just for having a white girl in his truck with him; one of Annie\u2019s brothers goes AWOL from the army and she helps him get to the safety of Canada.<\/p>\n

All these events and more are tied together in a fascinating story that will keep you wondering about the outcome until the very end.<\/p>\n

–Kay McCracken<\/a> is a poet, novelist, writer, book lover and organizer extraordinaire. She was one of the early founders of the writer’s festival Word on the Lake in Salmon Arm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kennedy Girl Review by Kay McCracken   I enjoyed reliving American history of the tumultuous 60\u2019s through the eyes and emotions of Annie Shea in Caitlin Hicks\u2019 new novel\u00a0Kennedy Girl. Annie is the compelling protagonist in Caitlin\u2019s first best-selling novel\u00a0A Theory of Expanded Love. In this sequel novel Annie is getting ready to go off […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1,197],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pondering-the-brilliance-of-existence","category-fiction","category-kennedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7531"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7904,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7531\/revisions\/7904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}