Mark Logan is off to his freshman year of college. It is 1969 and the world around him is moving faster than he could even imagine. In the course of the book that world introduces him to war, peace, discrimination, and love. He comes of age as he encounters Linda Warren on the campus of Manchester College. She creates in him the desire to question what is going on around him and yet see love. At the same time he begins a long distance relationship with Alicia Williams through letters to her in Wisconsin as she mourns the loss of her love in Vietnam. The story delves into the learning environment outside the classroom in college; the environment that built young people who didn't merely accept what they were told. Mark Logan starts college niave; and he leaves the first year with more questions than answers.