Parallel Tracks

About the Book

In the late 1960’s, two friends, one American, the other African, struggle to make sense of their lives as they traverse a troubled landscape of civil war in Africa and racial and political conflict in America. Their paths cross, separate and ultimately converge, as each deals with events and people which shape their self identities. The stories of their two separate journeys and the impact of their friendship, suggests a direction, uncertain but hopeful, for each to find his way.

About the Author

The author, Barry Veret, grew up in Nebraska and went to college and law school on the east coast. He spent most of his career in the fi eld of international development and has traveled abroad extensively. Parallel Tracks is a fi rst novel and is set in the era of the tumultuous late 1960s when the author lived and worked in Lagos Nigeria and Washington D.C. Barry Veret is now retired and lives with his wife in Chevy Chase Maryland.