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America is a country of absolutes: one is either pro-choice or pro-life, pro-guns or wants them all banned.

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For example, take considerations of duty: to her conscience, wholly anti-Vietnam War; and to her mother and to herself, both of whom want so badly for Judy to escape her hometown and its inevitable life as a secretary then housewife. To do so, Judy will need to graduate from college, which she can afford only with the military scholarship that she secures with a promise that Abti she finishes her nursing degree she will serve in Vietnam. There is no nuance. Judy lies to them even as she helps rally to save a professor nearly fired for anti-war rhetoric and as she joins a cohort of The Anti War and Hippie Movements members to protest in Washington D. The story is apropos. InJackson attracted vitriol and death threats for her story of a small America town that annually performs a ritual of drawing ballots. Intraditionalism does tear apart America, as children protest a draft for a war they do not believe in and their parents—parents who Movementz in Europe and the Pacific 25 years earlier—condemn them for betraying their country and the proud legacies of the Greatest Generation.

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The complexities of social movements, the banality of slogans, and the fallibility of rigid ideologies that cannot contend with change and circumstantial vagaries, all of this Judy must work through on her own as the dreaded draft lottery approaches. That wintry evening, she and her SMC friends gather around the common-use television and watch as the first number is called, a date to identify which boys born on that day will be sent first, and the birthday is her own: the fourteenth of September.

Though it is not she who risks being ambushed in the jungles of Vietnam, Judy knows she must decide nevertheless on her participation in the army, her lies to her friends, and her relationship with her military family. At the helm of this ambitious coming-of-conscience story, set in one of the most tumultuous times to be a young adult in America, is Rita Here, who draws on her own memories of the protests to craft her nAti novel.

For nearly thirty years Rita has told the stories of others as a public relations executive.

Now Movfments tells her own. Andrew Shi: Much of the tension in The Fourteenth of September comes from Judy being against the Vietnam War while dependent on her military scholarship to fund her education. This is a dilemma inspired by your own personal history, and one you were initially unwilling to use.

Why were you so hesitant to use your own history in a novel inspired by your memories of the Vietnam War and its protests?]