For Sandy Rivers, delivering the newspaper each morning becomes a kind of hero’s journey into the riven heart of a nation torn by war in Vietnam, the struggle for Civil Rights and the search for American purpose. His suburban landscape on the outskirts of the Virginia capital is an intimate if unsteady place of aging Buicks and loblolly pines, where the racial fault line is a bamboo grove at the edge of a honeysuckle swamp.

Helping him sort it all out is a mysterious figure with a tragic secret who stands by Sandy as he confronts a staggering loss.

This is a story of friendship. This is a story of hope. It’s the story of an era that helped shape this country and define our times, told through one boy’s extraordinary journey through his own small patch of America. And it’s the story of a debt he can never repay to someone he knows only as The Bicycle Man.

The Bicycle Man

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