Love and Protest

"Poignant and Heartfelt”

The Ideal Novel for a Book Club

W hile wandering through the Second Chance Thrift Shop, 17-year-old Harper Warner comes across a diary tucked in a nightstand drawer. The original owner, Liberty Carlson, had chronicled her "Summer of Love" in San Francisco and her involvement in the Anti-Vietnam War Movement 52 years earlier.

Certain her recently deceased mother arranged this discovery, the find takes on special import. Liberty's entries help Harper cope with her loss and motivate her to get involved in something larger than herself.

After deciding her cause to be the Black Lives Matter Movement, COVID-19 upends her life. Her media-fueled fears, and obsession with the growing death count, drive her into isolation—until the George Floyd murder.

Separated by generations, Harper and Liberty's heartbreaks and missteps are intertwined as they come of age and find their individual paths toward activism.