Boomers' War chronicles an era of conflicts without resolutions, where the clash of cultures, not social acceptance, defined a generation. There is no one book, fact or fiction that could tell young people what it was like then, or revisit the Sixties for today's baby boomers. An old joke says that if you remember the Sixties you were not there. That's nonsense. If you lived through the Sixties, as over ninety-nine percent of the 78 million baby boomers did, it is all but impossible to forget those years. For those of you who were not there and those who wish to revisit the era of peace and love, Vidda Crochetta's novel, Boomers' War, offers a unique perspective of the period with a fresh narrative voice that captures the essence of a time that became one of the major defining moments of the twentieth century.

Boomers' War connects the dots with fascinating insights into how Judy Garland's funeral galvanized the Queer community to mourn her death in broad daylight and became the spark that ignited the "Gay Power" riots! The novel deftly reveals: Why the bouncers stopped drag queens at Stonewall's door. What did bisexuals make of the assertion by nearsighted gays that they were just queer? What was it like to smoke pot on the Great Lawn in Central Park with a friend before going down to a bar in the Village? What were the rewards and rules of engagement while making pit stops in New York City subway public restrooms? Why would you have sex with your friend's girlfriend, both of who are lesbian? Do you know what a "Snow Queen" is?

All progressive movements interweave creativity to give rise to a host of social changes that reverberate throughout a generation. The Beatles were one such seismic cultural shockwave that paved the way for many lifestyle choices that today we take for granted. Their influence graced the music, lyrics, clothing, attitudes, rebellions and fashions that continue to impact mightily on us to this day. More than anything else in those days, it was the advent of long hair that emphatically changed human nature. No other cultural tweak or blast had as much effect on a way of life as men wearing their hair long. Just as it was then, in Boomers' War, men with long hair and their admirers shed many inhibitions that brought the genders closer together, liberated men, blurred sexual identity, changed the face of the music world, became a symbol of peace and help set the stage for Queer Folks to fight back.

Boomers' War traces the arc of seventeen year-old David Burton's coming-of-age. Seen through his eyes, the Los Angeles counterculture of 1967 awakens David's budding desire to explore the world as it really is, not as he was taught it should be. Returning to the East coast, David settles in Greenwich Village among volatile, yet fertile strains of dissent and revolution. His feet more firmly planted on the ground, David stands increasingly at odds with the norms of social convention, until, when, in his nineteenth year the brew bubbles over with anti-war protests and the gay and lesbian rebellion in the sultry summer of 1969.

In Boomers' War, a colorful cast of characters takes you on a nonstop timeline of a revolution in the making. Rebellions against the prohibitions of sex and drugs swirl in a melting pot of student unrest, anti-war protests, black power, bra burning, gay rights, free love, long hair, and bellbottoms, all of which bubble over into a strange and wondrous brew by the end of the decade. The sixties were about liberation and coming-of-age. The shedding of inhibitions toward lawful, peaceful protest propelled the frontlines of the baby boomers forward with spasms of social change-by reasoning where possible-kicking and screaming when necessary. Filled with the authentic sights and sounds of the rollicking times of forty years ago, Boomers' War showcases the impact that unrestrained enthusiasm for peace and love had on a nation locked in war at home and abroad.

When David Burton runs away from home with his high school buddy in the summer of 1967, the seventeen-year-old never anticipates he is about to enter a social maelstrom that will rock the very foundation of his generation. In an intolerant time and place, the farm-raised teen lives big city life to its fullest, from a Digger's pad in Los Angeles to the uninhibited bars of Greenwich Village. Author Vidda Crochetta has chronicled the end of the sixties from the perspective of one teen's coming-of-age amid America's greatest period of social change. No other decade carried the mantle of revolution on its shoulders the way the 1960s did. The baby boomers lived an avant-garde way of life that younger generations today can only imagine. Boomers' War is about young people who smoked pot, made love not war, did not trust anyone over thirty, and changed the world.