Feelgood
My first novel, Feelgood, confronted the possibility that the civil rights movement in the US might fail and the white supremacists win. In 1963 and 1964 while I was in south Georgia, before the big civil rights laws were passed, this seemed like a definite possibility. Today, sadly, with the resurgence of a white supremacist mentality in the country, to contemplate the likelihood of a civil rights movement failure again seems realistic. The novel is about a white kid who has been in the Movement living on the black side of a small Georgia town during a post-civil rights movement defeat and recounts his adventures along more traditonal lines of African American resistance to and coping with American cultural realities. (Feelgood is out of print but can be found for sale on various sellers' websites.)