Set during the tremendous social and political upheaval of the seventies America, the war in Vietnam rages is continuity into the Civil Rights struggle. The merging Feminist ideals, an offset of the first generation of young women with the novelty of ‘The Pill. The author captures imagination; a vivid past of the evocative period, a lifetime of transition of power where the seventies was a graphical imagery of a Flower Power counterculture: drugs, rock ‘n’ roll and sex sans shame or guilt integral; epic to that ethos. The author characterises the antagonist, Julena Brandee, a young African American as the great achiever winning the prestigious scholarship to ‘Big Ten’ University a recently de- segregation icon from the political upheaval. Crucially, the antagonist insistence to navigate minefield of racial politics is rewarded with loyalty, friendship, and love to transcend an acceptance of race and class.