Foreword
From all outward appearances, suburbia maintains the strait-laced middle-class look that belies the social ferment behind closed doors.
There is the secret use of drugs, fed by the marijuana syndrome. There is the river of alcohol flooding from door to door under the euphemism of social drinking. Then, of course, there is the advent of swinging and illicit sex. All in the spirit of good clean fun... But where does the fun stop and the degradation begin? When one excess leads to another -- and another -- to what? When the children set as a pattern for their own lifestyle what already is the norm at home?
This is the story of a mother, Gloria Wilson, and her son, Joel. It is startling as a mirror of a way of life behind closed doors. No facade. No regrets. Indeed, for them it is the norm.
The norm... For the Kanes, yes. And how many other families like them?
A novel of fiction for entertainment. A page of our restless society as food for serious thought.
The Publisher