After Woodstock

After Woodstock by Howard Reiss

About The Book:

Jack and Bryan have been best friends since the age of two. In high school, Jack talked about getting his math and computer technology doctorate and creating the first android robot. Bryan dreamed about becoming a big-time lawyer with a penthouse in the city and a house in the Hamptons. They graduated from high school in 1969, a momentous summer, which they capped off by attending the Woodstock Concert. The three days of peace, love, and music sent Jack off in a radically different direction. While Jack and Bryan go on to live very different lives, they continue their relationship over the next fifty years through letters.

My Thoughts:

I have always been fascinated with all things Woodstock, and the era, but I was born in the wrong generation or I would have gone if I was able to. My parents were old enough to go, but did not attend, though they very much were what some people would call hippies or flower children. Though there were a few other festivals before and around the time of Woodstock, it became the birth of music festivals, and all the ones that came after would never amount to what it was. In this book, yes, it is about Woodstock, but more so the foundation of a lifelong friendship, and how friendships can grow and evolve as we do as individual people do. A pretty quick read. It is told by Bryan. I love the mix of the letter writing, the in between, and the after in retrospect. I enjoyed the read very much.

About The Author:

Howard Reiss graduated from high school in 1969, just a few months prior to Woodstock. A graduate of Dartmouth College and Columbia Law School, Reiss co-founded a soup kitchen in Nyack, New York, and is an award-winning author with 13 other novels.

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~Hayley

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