Tom and Tina meet on a beach in Golden Shore, a college town in Southern California. The time is 1970, a year after the lunar landing and Kent State shootings. He is a Vietnam veteran working in aerospace but thinking about returning to school for a degree in English, so he can become a writer. Tom is newly sober but still haunted by the demons of Vietnam. Tina is entering her senior year of college and about to begin her student teaching. Her parents and divorced and she is estranged from her playboy father. Tom and Tina meet when her rolled-up towel is tossed like a football from friend to friend. The towel flies over the boardwalk railing and plunges down to strike Tom unawares. He rolls on the sand and starts to take aim with the assault rifle he no longer carries. Tom sees Tina rushing up to apologize. The whole world slows as they meet, eye to eye, with the attraction between them palpable and immediate. Will Tom get the offer from the university and move here? Will he be able to stay sober and conquer his flashbacks? Will Tina finally be able to let a man get past her defenses? Can they make it as a couple? Genesis of Love is set in a time of great social change, including the Free Love Movement and Student Demonstrations, with events of great historical importance, like the Vietnam War and Apollo 11. It was an Age of Innocence, before the term PTSD had even been coined, when people still believed in education and the power of love to redeem a human soul. J.R. Fisher, or just plain Jim, is also the author of The Adventures of J.R. Engels in the Great Pacific Northwest, a rollicking romp through the Olympic Mountains in the State of Washington, in which J.R. learns to fish for salmon and poach elk, while encountering Vampires and Sasquatch.
About the Author: J.R. or just plain Jim Fisher is a semi-retiring English professor who lives on the North Olympic Peninsula with his wife Ann, where they split time between their homes in Sequim and at nearby Lake Sutherland. Jim writes both fiction and poetry. Before retiring, Jim taught English twenty years for Peninsula College in Port Angeles, Washington. Before teaching, he worked for Procter and Gamble in Long Beach, California, where his final assignment was in computerized accounting. A plant closure allowed him to return to graduate school for two more degrees and an opportunity to relocate to the Pacific Northwest. Jim is also the author of The Adventures of J.R. Engels in the Great Pacific Northwest (2012). Three other publications are in the works: novels Happy Valley, USA, and Genesis of Love, plus a book of his humorous poetry, See Spot Smile.