Vern Rossman
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This is a work of fiction. All characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.
In his forty year career, Vern Rossman has worked overseas and in the United States for the churches,
interdenominationally, as a specialist in communications and literacy.
He was arrested in the civil rights struggle of the sixties and served twenty months in federal prison, for an anti-nuclear action in 1983, at Griffiss Air Force Base. He initiated two prison ministries which are continuing. He has served as a ward chair in his political party.
He lived through the Great Depression and World War II in Oklahoma and has traveled to thirty countries. A graduate of Yale Divinity School, majoring in Christian and Social Ethics, he has studied extensively, the political and moral issues surrounding sexuality in our society. He loves good novels and continues writing in retirement. Currently he is working on a sequel to The Next to the Last Taboo.
This novel begins with the taboo love affair of two thirteen year olds, Lo Sampson and Lainey Johnston, in a little town in southern Oklahoma during the summer of 1939. They are separated abruptly and not reunited until forty-four years later in Cambridge, MA., in the middle of an explosive crisis.
Lo has helped design and advise an eight year experiment by eight families to raise healthy children in a sick society through the educational project they call The Whole Child Experiment.
Unfortunately for them, one part of the experiment involved allowing the children to have sex with each other. When this is exposed by a fundamentalist minister, they are charged with “Contributing to the waywardness of a child,” and dragged into court.
The tense atmosphere of the courtroom contrasts vividly with the gentle love story of the opening of the novel, but readers will find every page moving or intriguing, will find themselves struggling to anticipate the outcome of the trial and wrestling all the way with their own feelings about the currently live issue of child sexuality in the lives of people which could be living next door.
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