Publisher's Synopsis
Set in Oklahoma, Ramona celebrates growing up, living as an adult, and eventually facing death. Larry D. Griffin adds impact to the message by flipping standard chapter arrangements, placing an index at the start and concluding after fourteen chapters with "Contents." Often the narrator, William Jameson, also appears in third person narratives, but occasionally in the second person as sermons to himself, for church and state loom large in his considerations of war and possibly being drafted. The Vietnam War continues while, from Chevys, Fords, and Studebaker dash tube radios, popular songs remind of a very good year and hours of Beatles blare about peace. Still green, Jameson finds comfort in his sexuality (a grasp at life in the face of threat), sawmills, horseshoes, car parts, books, basketball, stamp collections, telescopes, Australia, fossils, antique trunks, lightning, and funerals that celebrate lives not compromised in humans' desire for peace. That quite simply remains the Oklahoma index and the contents of this novel.
