The Orange & Blue Drive-In

In March of 1967 a young man named Timmy leaves home at the age of fifteen to make room for the arrival of his sister s baby. His journey takes him just a few blocks down the same street, but his life changes dramatically. He goes to work for a man named Morgan, the new owner of the Orange and Blue Drive-In, and he meets Penney, Morgan’s thirty-year-old daughter. Rundi, a Muslim immigrant from India rents him a small room in the back of his antique store. Timmy s childhood and friends cling to him, but a different world pulls him forward into new relationships, relationships that have startling consequences. Everything happens against the background of the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War, the release of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band by the Beatles, riots in Detroit, the poverty of Timmy’s east Gainesville neighborhood, and a changing world.

The Orange and Blue Drive-In is written in a style that combines poetic form with a continuous narrative sequence. The sparse language and minimal punctuation pare the story down to its most essential elements and the characters stand in sharp contrast to the world surrounding them.

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