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Heyday
A coming-of-age story set in the turbulent 1960s
It’s May 1967. The nation is embroiled in the Vietnam War and war protests, the draft, and civil rights. But in Oklahoma City, seventeen-year-old amateur photographer Frankie Lancaster is more concerned about the senior prom. He’s spent the past year trying to break free of the awkward, reserved kid he’s always been before—here on out, he decides, it’s his “heyday.”
Over the course of prom weekend—the anniversary of a family tragedy—Frankie experiences a wild series of misadventures, and an encounter with a free spirit hitchhiking to California makes him question all of his carefully made plans. And to really begin his life.
It’s May 1967. The nation is embroiled in the Vietnam War and war protests, the draft, and civil rights. But in Oklahoma City, seventeen-year-old amateur photographer Frankie Lancaster is more concerned about the senior prom. He’s spent the past year trying to break free of the awkward, reserved kid he’s always been before—here on out, he decides, it’s his “heyday.”
Over the course of prom weekend—the anniversary of a family tragedy—Frankie experiences a wild series of misadventures, and an encounter with a free spirit hitchhiking to California makes him question all of his carefully made plans. And to really begin his life.
384 pages, Paperback
Published October 14, 2025
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