Pinhead: A Love Story

by Timothy James Bazzett

That Reed City Boy is back! Fresh out of the army in the fall of ‘65, Tim Bazzett feels like he has fallen behind his former friends from high school, many of whom are already married and working, or nearly finished with college. Older than most of his fellow freshmen at Ferris State, Tim feels out of step and flounders about trying to find his proper place as he immerses himself in a work-study routine which only leaves him more isolated and lonely. Then, in his sophomore year, he joins the Ferris Vet’s Club and re-enters that world of rough camaraderie of the shared military experience. Tim’s social life improves, but his grades slide, until he meets the girl, and starts straightening out his act and turning his life around.

The Ferris State campus and the sixties from a small-town perspective are vividly evoked throughout this alternately hilarious and poignant narrative. Sex, booze, rock and roll, and spring break on the Florida beaches – it’s all here, along with first cars, making new friends, scrub crew shenanigans, grassers and the excitement of first kisses and coppin’ that first feel. An eloquent and irreverent paean to the joys and uncertainties of lookin’ for love – and finding it – Pinhead will take you back to a simpler and more innocent time of life. So dig out your favorite old albums and set the needle in the groove. Pour yourself a tall cool one, kick back, open up this book and get ready to remember.

320 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 1, 2006