The Good Vibe Trilogy is a coming-of-age adventure following the lives of two young people from diverse environments. Their unlikely connection pivots with a 40-year journey of humor, romance, chaos, and hope, testing the concept that everything happens for a reason.
JUXTAPOSITION: The act or an instance of placing two or more things side by side, often to compare or contrast or . . . to create an interesting effect.
Set in Central New Jersey, the Good Vibe Trilogy is a coming-of-age story following the lives of two young people raised in diverse yet dysfunctional environments during the late 1970s. When their lives connect, it impacts the destinies of their friends and family over a forty-year span.
Volume One, The Paradise We Create, introduces Andrew “Drew” Reubens. As a teen, he is a girl-crazy, self-involved kid at the center of a clique of performing arts geeks. One of the many females in his sphere is unfiltered and misunderstood Alyona “Yoyo” Zalenkov, being raised in a rural cult environment with warped family values.
The result of their unlikely relationship is represented in the modern-day events of the story, as Andrew hosts a celebration at his Central Jersey establishment, The Good Vibe Lounge. When the younger generation of his family expresses a desire to understand more about their back story, Andrew pivots, between modern times and 1977, his climactic senior year of High School to weave the story of Drew and Yoyo . . . and a collection of characterful events and relationships along the way.
With help from his eldest friends, Andrew narrates a saga filled with humor, chaos, romance and hope, seeking to balance “what might have been” with everything happening at the place where reality meets up with all of it . . . for a reason.
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