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The Infinite Plan
First published 1991
Gregory Reeves grows up in a precarious family moving through the United States before settling in a poor Los Angeles neighbourhood. Friendship with the Morales family gives him an alternative home, but ambition, prejudice and insecurity continue to shape his choices as he enters adulthood.
Military service in Vietnam and later professional success do not resolve the damage carried from childhood and war. The novel follows Gregory’s long effort to understand responsibility, love and belonging within twentieth-century California, using the Vietnam generation as the central historical rupture in an otherwise intimate life story.
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