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Wounds and prejudices stemming from the Civil War, the Great Depression and other conflicts run deep in the Ozark hill country. These frailties, like the scab of the putrid wound, will from time to time reopen and ooze pus. Within the tumultuous time of 1968, a farmer stumbles onto the gruesome world of the hate criminal offense: the lynching of a homosexual man whose mangled body has been left suspending from a tree. Hints abound, however the exploration withers and dies. Thirty-eight years later, Aubrey Hatfield and the people of Campbell County get a second chance to grapple with man's most significant vice - the refusal to see incorrect and do something about it. The life span journey of protagonist Aubrey Hatfield contrasts the culture of the turbulent Sixties with today's culture, and ponders how we should adjust to or resist the ever-changing notions of right and incorrect. Thus, Homosexual Panic in the Ozarks is a troubling story of the culture warfare that population is waging on itself. Brusque but humane, the novel examines love, hate, morality, honor, and work - things that inform and shape our destiny.
