Now is the Hour

Now is the Hour by Tom Spanbauer

Set in the tumultuous 1960's, Now is the Hour gives an easy-to-read, yet inventive, account of the coming-of-age of a boy growing up in the Mid-West. Overcoming his rigid Catholic upbringing (including a prude mother and racist father), the protagonist finds love, awakening, and a new sense of the world all to the tune of Jimi Hendrix and Scott McKenzie.