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The Speed of Darkness by Steve Tesich @LVLT



Twenty years after they came back from Vietnam to less than a hero’s welcome, Joe and Lou are still struggling to come to terms with the trauma of their tour of duty. Joe has captured the American Dream: a family, a thriving business and a chance to be South Dakota’s Man of the Year. Yet, question about what is was like to be over there, what he did to win his medals, stir up a rage in Joe that threatens to blow apart his carefully constructed world. Lou lives the American nightmare, homeless and shunned, wandering around America. Lou drops in on his o