It’s spring, 1969. Gary and Priscilla, graduating high school seniors, consider the precepts of their classical education against the alluring freedom of the war-driven radical counter culture. Conversation leads to romance, indiscretion, and crises when Gary faces expulsion from boarding school for allegedly violating the Honor Code. Gary’s apparent guilt plays into the hands of his corrupt uncle, who seeks to solidify his control over the family fortune by using Gary’s “moral turpitude” to eliminate him from serving as a co-trustee. Gary, Priscilla, family, and friends are forced to make moral decisions in the reality of life, rather than in theory. Readers of any age will not soon forget this coming-of-age story that conjures up nostalgia as well as heavy implications for the modern generation and beyond.