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Fortunate Son

Fortunate Son by Thomas Tibor, published by Zahav Brothers Publishing, is available in multiple formats on Amazon. (Search for it by title AND author.) 

This evocative coming-of-age novel is set on a southern college campus during the turbulent spring of 1970. Reed Lawson, an ROTC cadet, struggles with the absence of his father, a Navy pilot who’s been Missing in Action in Vietnam for three years. When he volunteers at a drug crisis center, Reed sets out to win the heart of a feminist co-worker grappling with a painful past and to rescue a troubled teenage girl from self-destruction. During his journey, Reed is forced to confront trauma’s tragic consequences and the fragile, tangled web of human connections.

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Stay the Course

“Stay the Course” is a screenplay about a sharecropper’s son from the Deep South who must overcome racism, injuries, and internal demons to become the first black golfer in the 1950s to break the color barrier in professional golf.

In 1947, Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier. In 1954, the Supreme Court struck down “separate but equal.” However, from 1943 through 1961, the Professional Golfers’ Association (PGA), with rare exceptions, excluded black golfers from participating in its sponsored tournaments. Famous black golfers such as Bill Spiller, Ted Rhodes, and Charlie Sifford never had the opportunity to achieve their potential or did so only late in their careers. “Stay the Course” is dedicated to these and other unsung heroes.