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Before Occupy . . . there was Strike! Besides Madison Avenue . . . there was Fun City. Beyond Law and Order . . . there was Love and Peace. New York in the 1960's: the famous, infamous, and not-so-famous marched and partied side by side; sexual liberation and political protest exploded; and the Music - above all, rock - opened the doors to everything. For attorney Nate Kovacs, at first that hardly matters. His wife has just died of cancer and he's struggling to keep his family together. But a disastrous case at his old firm forces him to reinvent himself as a civil liberties lawyer, and that plunges him and his children, Artie and Karen, into all the city's cultural and political turmoil, especially when they befriend Danny Geller, an up-and-coming rock musician determined to break boundaries when it comes to drugs and potentially violent radical activism. Their involvement with the city's near-chaos and with Danny threatens to tear them apart and throws them into a legal battle that could end Nate's career. Part family drama, part portrait of an era, and part the story of regular people, young and old, taking on some of the most powerful issues of their lifetimes in the courts, colleges, and streets of New York, CATS' EYES - from blackout to black light, from World's Fair to Woodstock - tells the story of a family and a city on the edge of enlightenment and madness, crisis and joy. Michael Eric Stein's CATS' EYES takes us on an absolutely authoritative trip to New York City in the '60s, and it's though we had never seen it before. The novel offers an exuberant, cinematic treatment of that time and place's events and characters, some of which are real, and some of which are products of the author's imagination, which is so supercharged and fine-tuned that you can't tell the difference. We hear all kinds of voices from the period-students, photographers, musicians, lawyers, freaks. And we hear the music, too, in a way that rings true and clear. CATS' EYES offers readers a wild ride, and I urge them to take it. It's bumpy at times, and it's not always pleasant, but it's filled with emotion, verve, humor, and life, and it's not to be missed. -Ben Yagoda, Author of How to Not Write Bad: The Most Common Writing Problems and the Best Ways to Avoid Them and About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made.

Walk with me - to the heart of Oak Park, Illinois, a community like no other, yet like all others, where the unique meets the universal. Welcome to our town, a dynamic, ever-evolving entity. The unifying thread is community - discovering it in the day-to-day, the face-to-face, the moments of beauty, the longing to be better than we were, striving to be better than we are, and, as Thornton Wilder wrote in his play, Our Town, prizing the smallest details and events of daily life. Our Town Oak Park aims for that same "rainbow's end": capturing the experience of being alive - in one middle-sized, middle-class, Midwest town at the beginning of the 21st century. True community is more than individuals living next to one another. It is the alchemy that takes place when we interact and become better individuals for doing so. Oak Park is an ongoing experiment to see if a mere collection of individuals can be diverse yet whole, to the benefit of everyone. And if one community can accomplish this, then all can. "We" are not some static set piece, some staged play, some museum diorama. You and I are part of a greater whole yet to come. We're not there yet, but we're getting there, moment by moment. My hope is that you'll find many such moments in this book. This has been both a personal and collective journey. Oak Park has worked hard over the past 70 years to foster community. Not some blissful utopia. Moving toward true community is hard work, but worth the struggle. We're pointing the way because we need as many inclusive, equity-aspiring, ever-evolving, good-governing, welcoming communities as possible. My walk has lasted 32 years. Returning to Oak Park, covering the town for the local newspaper, I got to know people I probably never would have met otherwise. Everyone, I soon learned, has a story and everyone's story is worth telling. Cumulatively, those stories tell who we are - in our living, loving, and dying. And ever so slowly, I discovered a place of deep belonging. I found my way back home.