“It’s 1966. The Beatles have taken over the airways, Star Trek is in its first season on NBC, and 389,000 American troops are stationed in Vietnam. In Argus, Illinois, sixteen-year-old Billy Ray Fleener is facing a different kind of struggle: he is learning what it means to be a man. With a style that is sensitive, rugged, and thoroughly American, Michael Loyd Gray captures the turmoil of a nation through the eyes of one of its native sons.”
—Dana Micheli, writer and editor with Writers In the Sky Creative Writing Services
