Gary Spillers has turned a hobby of writing about his college football days and life after college in the '70s into this masterful novel that blends poignant stories of small-town southern life with hilarious, "mostly true" tales about the excesses of those college years and the escapades of his youth. Weaving through the novel is a love story that takes us back to the '70s, while road-tripping westward across the country in a beat-up, 1967 Chevy.