Grass Through Pavement: War, Sex & Enlightenment($12.99Value)

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"With razor-sharp, witty, and poignant prose, Trivelas's stunning debut novel is a fast-moving story from start to finish." - Robin Meloy Goldsby, author of Piano Girl Playbook [Backbeat] He was nineteen, running from a shotgun wedding, when the Navy gave him an exit. What followed was four decades he never could have predicted. Grass Through Pavement traces one man’s long, unruly journey — from an aircraft carrier in the Gulf of Tonkin to the free-love streets of San Francisco, through marriages and affairs, Transcendental Meditation and psychedelics, fatherhood and hard-won wisdom, and finally a reckoning in the streets of Hanoi that quietly changes everything. Vietnam is where Lucien’s story begins. What it becomes is something far larger. With a narrative voice reminiscent of Eve Babitz, Peter Trivelas blends introspection with vivid storytelling — candid, funny, and surprisingly tender. A novel about desire, consequence, and the stubborn human capacity to keep growing, at any age. For readers of Tim O’Brien, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and anyone who believes that becoming yourself is a lifelong project.