If Not the Whole Truth

Gritty Courage and Love in the Endless Struggle for Power

A young woman struggles to ferret out her place in the counterculture of the late 1960s era only to find in 2022 America that everything she holds dear, even her own life, is in jeopardy.

Connie Borders sees the changes coming down in 1969 and refuses to let them pass her by.

Rejecting her parents' outdated lifestyle and the narrow, whitebread path prescribed for her, Connie leaves Indianapolis for California to stop the Vietnam War and reshape the country into the Woodstock Nation. Her course veers when Carlos, an older university student who is a first-generation, Black Puerto Rican American, persuades her that radical Chicago is where it's at.

During a whirlwind of protests and an acid-laced rock concert, electricity runs between Connie and Carlos. But when she witnesses a shooting in the wake of Black Panther Fred Hampton's murder, she is forced to leave Chicago. From the Midwest to Berkeley and back, Connie goes on a freewheeling search for her place in the fractured movement. Naïve and flawed but pure-hearted, she navigates the complexities of friendship and family, of unwanted pregnancy and illegal abortion, and of cultural and political divides, while untangling her desire for Carlos and his hardcore passion for Puerto Rican independence. Connie learns she must trust her instincts to seek out the whole story-which may not be the whole truth.

Fifty years later, when Connie is a pro-choice activist in Chicago, her questioned convictions put her in chilling danger.

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If Not the Whole Truth

Gritty Courage and Love in the Endless Struggle for Power

A young woman struggles to ferret out her place in the counterculture of the late 1960s era only to find in 2022 America that everything she holds dear, even her own life, is in jeopardy.

Connie Borders sees the changes coming down in 1969 and refuses to let them pass her by.

Rejecting her parents' outdated lifestyle and the narrow, whitebread path prescribed for her, Connie leaves Indianapolis for California to stop the Vietnam War and reshape the country into the Woodstock Nation. Her course veers when Carlos, an older university student who is a first-generation, Black Puerto Rican American, persuades her that radical Chicago is where it's at.

During a whirlwind of protests and an acid-laced rock concert, electricity runs between Connie and Carlos. But when she witnesses a shooting in the wake of Black Panther Fred Hampton's murder, she is forced to leave Chicago. From the Midwest to Berkeley and back, Connie goes on a freewheeling search for her place in the fractured movement. Naïve and flawed but pure-hearted, she navigates the complexities of friendship and family, of unwanted pregnancy and illegal abortion, and of cultural and political divides, while untangling her desire for Carlos and his hardcore passion for Puerto Rican independence. Connie learns she must trust her instincts to seek out the whole story-which may not be the whole truth.

Fifty years later, when Connie is a pro-choice activist in Chicago, her questioned convictions put her in chilling danger.

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If Not the Whole Truth

If Not the Whole Truth

by Claire S Arbogast
If Not the Whole Truth

If Not the Whole Truth

by Claire S Arbogast

Overview

Gritty Courage and Love in the Endless Struggle for Power

A young woman struggles to ferret out her place in the counterculture of the late 1960s era only to find in 2022 America that everything she holds dear, even her own life, is in jeopardy.

Connie Borders sees the changes coming down in 1969 and refuses to let them pass her by.

Rejecting her parents' outdated lifestyle and the narrow, whitebread path prescribed for her, Connie leaves Indianapolis for California to stop the Vietnam War and reshape the country into the Woodstock Nation. Her course veers when Carlos, an older university student who is a first-generation, Black Puerto Rican American, persuades her that radical Chicago is where it's at.

During a whirlwind of protests and an acid-laced rock concert, electricity runs between Connie and Carlos. But when she witnesses a shooting in the wake of Black Panther Fred Hampton's murder, she is forced to leave Chicago. From the Midwest to Berkeley and back, Connie goes on a freewheeling search for her place in the fractured movement. Naïve and flawed but pure-hearted, she navigates the complexities of friendship and family, of unwanted pregnancy and illegal abortion, and of cultural and political divides, while untangling her desire for Carlos and his hardcore passion for Puerto Rican independence. Connie learns she must trust her instincts to seek out the whole story-which may not be the whole truth.

Fifty years later, when Connie is a pro-choice activist in Chicago, her questioned convictions put her in chilling danger.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9798990301801
Publisher: Margin Key
Publication date: 09/10/2024
Pages: 374
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.83(d)

About the Author

The daughter of florists and granddaughter of a prolific gardener, award-winning author Claire Arbogast was born in 1950. She grew up among the winding streets and deep front porches of historic Irvington on the eastside of Indianapolis. But her life took a wide turn as books and the times challenged her limited perspective of the world. This questioning wove its way into her very fiber, leading her to try on different ways to live, different ways to love, and different ways to write. After a few years of exploring (southern Indiana, Chicago, California, The Farm in Tennessee, Albuquerque, touring the country in a handmade camper, and a couple winters in Alaska), she earned a degree in journalism from Indiana University-Bloomington and went on to work in communications, living in Fort Wayne, Bloomington, and Cincinnati. She is the recipient of a 2009-10 Greer Artist Fellowship grant and a 2008 Ropewalk Writers Retreat Masters Creative Non-fiction Workshop Scholarship.These days, she gardens and writes in Bloomington, Indiana, relishing every sweet day with a thirst for sorting, rejecting, and adapting to the infinite stream of ideas that flow into our lives. Her memoir, "Leave the Dogs at Home," was published by Indiana University Press in 2015. It is the 2016 AAUP Public and Secondary School Library Selection. Check out her books and blog, Inside Stories, at www.clairearbogast.com.
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