TALES OF AN ORPHAN in 1960's AMERICA This book is set amongst the backdrop of race riots, the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King, the Vietnam War, bikers, hippies, and the black curtain of the church. In March of 1963, a thirty-seven-year-old mother dies, leaving behind eight children. While her husband, raised himself in an orphanage, a war hero in WWII, a genius, a con man, and an alcoholic, deserts his children...