Author Reading with Jess Shapiro

About the Book:

In the summer of 1969 the world was not just spinning around, it was turning upside down.
The Theory of the Sofa presents three very different perspectives of this seminal period in American history. As the main characters navigate the turbulent times, their separate coming- of-age paths cross and diverge, and a slow- burning plot grows into a full-blown inferno.
Lenny is on his way to an MBA, but instead hops on an old school bus heading to a commune in Mendocino. Jean was raised on a New Hampshire farm, and has dreams that are derailed by his father’s untimely death. The two men unwittingly become embroiled in Steven’s mafia activities, a world they know nothing about.
This plays out against the backdrop of a world in flux. There were protests, assassinations, men on the moon, nuclear saber-rattling, war, peace, drugs and love, all clearly defined by the music we heard and sang, gospel that half a century later still elicits exuberant sing-alongs.

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About the Author Jess Shapiro:

I was born in Brooklyn in 1947 and raised on Long Island. My wife and I graduated from Penn State in 1969 and got married in 1970. After two years we quit our teaching jobs and “Turned On/Tuned In/Dropped Out” to a commune in Oregon. When we returned east we bought an old farmhouse in New Hampshire and, no longer willing to work for “The Man,” started our own school. The assimilation of a couple of liberal city kids into a conservative small town was eye-opening, and an idea for a novel began to percolate. After we retired to Martha’s Vineyard I got serious and finished The Theory of the Sofa in 2025.

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