"One of the best and most convincing novels written so far about the
lifestyle of the Woodstock generation." (Publishers Weekly)
It's the fall of 1969, and Gloria Random's best friend John has been
called up for the draft. To escape it, they decide to run away from
their Midwest town and their mundane lives. Renaming themselves Witch
and Roy, they head to New York City in search of Witch's biological
father. Landing in the East Village, they are pulled into a community of
drug use, mystical rituals, and sexual experimentation as they try to
hide deeper and deeper from the realities they left behind.
James Leo Herlihy's third novel captures the mood and grooves of
late-60s New York at the height of the anti-war movement and the
counterculture revolution. With his trademark wit and insight, Herlihy
brings together a colorful cast of characters ripped right from the
heart of one of the most turbulent eras in American history.