A chance meeting between a teenage farm boy and a free-spirited college girl in 1967 becomes a love story that underscores the challenges of the time. Set in rural Vermont over one summer, Of Time and Chance portrays the conflict between unquestioning patriots and a counterculture resisting involvement in the Vietnam War through powerful, understated storytelling and finely drawn characters that resist stereotype.

“I want to stay here with you.” “For just a second, he loved what she said. Then he thought about it. “But I won’t be here.”

She pulled away and looked into his face without saying anything.

“I’ve got a letter from the draft board. I ain’t got a choice. I got to report to them, or they will come and get me. And that means jail.” “You’re not seriously thinking about…”

“I don’t see what else I can do. I’ve always known this was going to happen. You’ve known it too.”

Porter …deftly weaves in a subplot regarding the wise, weary, and still hard-working Nellie’s shifting perspective about the war and growing fears about her declining health and imminent mortality. The novel’s New England rural setting is also well-captured: Crystal experiences a “magical walk in the forest at night” and learns that making hay bales, milking a cow, and camp cooking are not as simple and easy as they initially seem. A beautifully realized depiction of young love, rural life, and the ideological struggles of the era. — Kirkus Reviews

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As the granddaughter of Maxwell Perkins, the famous editor of Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ruth Porter has been living and breathing books her whole life. She's also a mother and grandmother, having raised four kids who now have kids of their own; a farmer, having lived on a farm and raised her own food since the 1970s; and a publisher, having started Bar Nothing Press with her husband, Bill, in 2005. Though Bill passed on in 2022, Ruth continues to publish quality fiction with the help of her son Robby.

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