This is a story of the 1980s. It's the story of California Sate Highway 17, between San Jose and Santa Cruz. It's the story of Jackson Trimble, ex-priest, and his wife, Gretchen "Pokey" Killinger, and their lives in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Jack has the unfortunate ability to bring on the demise of every business he joins. He builds cabin cruiser to $ell, only to have the bottom fall out of the cabin cruiser market. He and Pokey build a cabin in...