"Crystal Ships" is a saga of eight young Americans as they begin their adult lives in the tumultuous sixties, grappling with the uncertain times and shifting ideas that will mold and shape their characters and spirits and leave a legacy for the next generation. It also serves as a prequel to "Wandering Barques," a tale focused on the life journeys of two sisters born in the traumatic sixties. Beginning in the idealistic days of Kennedy's Camelot, "Crystal Ships" follows the assassinations, gender and race conflicts, drug ...
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"Crystal Ships" is a saga of eight young Americans as they begin their adult lives in the tumultuous sixties, grappling with the uncertain times and shifting ideas that will mold and shape their characters and spirits and leave a legacy for the next generation. It also serves as a prequel to "Wandering Barques," a tale focused on the life journeys of two sisters born in the traumatic sixties. Beginning in the idealistic days of Kennedy's Camelot, "Crystal Ships" follows the assassinations, gender and race conflicts, drug culture, riots, and finally, the war in Vietnam that defines this conflicted era. The protagonists are eight sometimes friends and lovers. They include Shane Stephens, haling from a rough neighborhood in Boston and hoping to escape poverty by pursuing higher education; Harvard alumni Gil Gardner, boasting a prestigious and wealthy family and prone to unhealthy habits; aspiring dancer Lucy Funaro who hides a painful past of verbal and physical abuse; Italian Catholic and Lucy's supportive friend, Camila Benenati, also a dancer; Ira Funaro, Lucy's brother and Camila's ex-boyfriend; Ava Bernberg Funaro, Ira's ambitious, modern wife; Balinda Joubert, a young South African woman who is classified as white but always vulnerable to having her status changed to colored. She eventually marries Shane and lives with him in Zambia. An epic tale of 1960s and '70s America, "Crystal Ships" follows the lives of these eight friends as they navigate almost two decades of promise, social revolution, and war.
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