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Life's What Happens

par Kathy Clark

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FINALIST FOR BEST INDIE MAINSTREAM BOOK OF 2013How did one night change over a million lives forever?It's 1969 at Kent State University and the brothers of Phi Psi Kappa fraternity think they have their lives all planned out. It's their senior year and their biggest worries are how to pass their classes with the least amount of studying and the greatest amount of partying and girls. All that changes on December 1st, 1969 when the government holds the first draft lottery for the Vietnam War.With the blink of an eye, all their plans and dreams had to be changed or abandoned in consideration for what would keep them out of the army. Some men dropped out, some joined to avoid the draft and to pick their poison, some got job deferments and some fled to Canada or Australia. But everyone looked at life differently.The shooting by the National Guard on May 4, 1970 closed the campus and the brothers went their separate ways. It isn't until more than forty years later when they are reunited because of a death of a dear friend that they find out what became of them and their girlfriends. And who survived.LIFE'S WHAT HAPPENS is their story, as each is faced with questions much more complicated than any generation past. It is about the year they turned from boys to men, and where their choices took them.… (plus d'informations)
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Life’s What Happens does for Kent State students what Derek Robinson’s Piece of Cake did for WWII pilots in 1939. A large cast of characters, often irreverent, teasing, hard-working and hard-playing, comes to life in the first part of the novel where students ponder what the future might bring, and threats of a draft lottery begin to loom large. The photographer, the dissector of dead cats, the poor rich guy and the newly successful poor friend, and more, live out their everyday lives against a backdrop of eateries, drink, tests and dreams. Girlfriends abound, and the relationships have that vivid teenage immediacy of indestructability and rebellion. But destruction looms large.

The day of the lottery is captured in photos by the photographer, and becomes hauntingly real to the reader as numbers are called and accidents of birth offer the destruction of dreams. But life goes on, through physical exams, unanswered appeals, the folly of regulation, and the sudden danger of overwhelmed emotions.

An innocent trip downtown turns disastrous near the end of the novel, and tension rises with the terrors of historical events, making this novel truly haunting and hard to put down. The author wisely keeps politics out of the picture, telling just the story of real people, caught in an unreal situation. By the end it’s clear that nobody ever sees the future, and all of us see differently when we look back at the past. I’m glad to have seen through the eyes of these students, through the words of this author. And Life’s What Happens is highly recommended.

Disclosure: I bought it when it was free. ( )
  SheilaDeeth | May 2, 2014 |
This story is an excellent re-telling of the 1960's and how the lives of these college students were changed in the blink of an eye, during the draft for the Vietnam conflict and the Kent state shootings. The characters are brought alive by the story as there well thought out plans for jobs, graduation and life is irrevocably changed overnight. ( )
  Shelleywalling88 | Jan 7, 2013 |
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FINALIST FOR BEST INDIE MAINSTREAM BOOK OF 2013How did one night change over a million lives forever?It's 1969 at Kent State University and the brothers of Phi Psi Kappa fraternity think they have their lives all planned out. It's their senior year and their biggest worries are how to pass their classes with the least amount of studying and the greatest amount of partying and girls. All that changes on December 1st, 1969 when the government holds the first draft lottery for the Vietnam War.With the blink of an eye, all their plans and dreams had to be changed or abandoned in consideration for what would keep them out of the army. Some men dropped out, some joined to avoid the draft and to pick their poison, some got job deferments and some fled to Canada or Australia. But everyone looked at life differently.The shooting by the National Guard on May 4, 1970 closed the campus and the brothers went their separate ways. It isn't until more than forty years later when they are reunited because of a death of a dear friend that they find out what became of them and their girlfriends. And who survived.LIFE'S WHAT HAPPENS is their story, as each is faced with questions much more complicated than any generation past. It is about the year they turned from boys to men, and where their choices took them.

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