Pat’s Comments (group member since Apr 20, 2014)

Pat’s comments from the Running, Track and Field group.

Just published a new novel about a high school cross country team that is called Sitting Bull Run. Available on Amazon and ebooks. Been told the novel is a very good read.

Here is description on back cover:

Born a few years too late to be drafted into the Vietnam War, the seven seniors on the 1973 St. Theresa High School cross country team were a group of scrubbed prep boys who barely noticed the ebbing tide of the ghastly conflict in Southeast Asia. In fact, from their small seaside enclave of Bellport, New York, the war was unimaginable to them. It’s not because they couldn’t see it, besieged as they were by the newsreels and photographs. Rather, their world was the nearby ocean surf and downtown storefronts and, of course, the rugged cross country terrain, which for them represented their ultimate goal of winning the state championship that November. After a strong summer of training, where they dominated in several preseason races, they were well on the way to doing just that. But on a late August night, their world was turned upside down when for three of the team’s runners a confluence of hostile and sinister forces, with ties to the Catholic Church as well as the war, left their lives shattered and in ruin. Sitting Bull Run tells the dark but hopeful story of these three boys.