Soda Fountain Blues: “One of the best young adult novels I’ve ever read. I found this coming-of-age novel to be a page-turner. Once I started reading, I did not want to stop.” –Rickey Pittman, Bard of the South.
Ozark Writers’ League Best Book of the Year
Soda Fountain Blues is a coming-of-age story set in a more innocent time.
In 1965, 18-year-old Wesley Sanders heads west from Missouri on a Trailways bus looking for adventure and lands a summer job at a soda fountain in Yellowstone Park. He meets and falls for Lizzie, a Mormon cowgirl, who has a different idea of romance, and star-crossed misunderstandings result. When tragic news from back home forces Wesley to make mature decisions, secrets and lies are revealed in the odyssey that follows, and Wesley finds love and friendship that one special summer.
Fans of Whitaker’s debut novel, Geese to a Poor Market, will appreciate the reappearance of some characters and the resolution of issues left pending in the first novel. Soda Fountain Blues is currently available online at Amazon. Signed copies will be available at future personal appearances and by contacting the author through this website.