I have a new historical novel coming, this one set during the Vietnam War in the US. The working title is Coyote Weather and it will most likely be out sometime next year, from Northampton House Press.
Here's the thumbnail:
In the face of the Vietnam War and a culture violently remaking itself, Jerry has stubbornly made no plans for the future because he doesn't think that, in the shadow of Vietnam, the Cold War and atomic bomb drills, there is going to be one. Ellen is determined to have a plan, because nothing else seems capable of keeping the world from tilting. And the Ghost, who isn't exactly dead, just wants to go home to a place that won't let him in, the small California town where they all grew up.
It's 1967 and the world is going to hell in a hand basket.
The country is forcibly sending its young men to fight in a deeply unpopular war.
African Americans have had enough of Jim Crow.
Women have had enough of a lot of things.
And over it all looms the politics of the Cold War and the real possibility of a nuclear war.
Together and separately, Ellen and Jerry navigate the shifting territory of war and anti-war riots, mistaken marriages, a back-to-the-land commune, the draft, and women's consciousness-raising, to name of few of the obstacles in their path. For Jerry, the conviction that if he goes to Vietnam he'll come back crazy pushes him into one final desperate act. Ellen, convinced that Jerry has left them no future together, retreats into a critical mistake in an attempt to anchor her life. In the end, while Ellen and Jerry find that ultimately not much can be planned, they discover that what is given can't be turned away from.