Khoi Nguyen > Recent Status Updates

flashback to Watergate hearings and Merry is mad even though family is against Vietnam war

Swede unwilling to get daughter and unwilling to let nether Jerry do so

daughter denies sending Rita Cohen. Escapes to various states, raped twice, also bombs Oregon. Swede can’t take her back and goes to brother Jerry, who says he is not assertive and ignorant about the US and life

Enlisted in Marines but was sent to drill instructing. Riots hurt Newark factory so outsource to Czechoslovakia. Daughter returns as Jain in austere bad part of NJ. Admits to bombing, says she did it herself

Rita sends message that Merry works at hospital. Dawn depressed. Backstory - competes in Miss beauty contests on a whim and goes up to Miss NJ. Resentful of not being taken seriously. Facelift. Cows

Meets Rita at factory who attacks his business and capitalism. Escapes him and FBI at hotel sex. 5 years, no Merry. Merry started with self immolation in TV and Angela Davis?

merry obsessed with going to New York with friends Bill and Melissa, who support Vietnam, rather than Umanoffs. Resentful of NJ home for not being anti war. Eventually she doesnt go and bombs post office instead

Meredith hates how much people try to fix her stuttering. Becomes social outcast and hates Lyndon Johnson and politics

Swede died. Worked at Newark maid and married local. Daughter bombed USPS and then died.

Mexico - get high and with prostitutes. Book ends with Remi and Sal as Dean has to return west - things don’t work out with Inez and Camille and two kids want him back

Leave Chicago for Detroit. Dean second baby. Part four: Sal sells book and is in Denver again. Dean arrives

Driving kids to Chicago in Cadillac and Dean finds new girl. Ed believes Cadillac is stolen

Dean stole cars

Leave for the east. Stop in Sacramento. Denver - Sal meets Okie family he knew before. Dean is meeting with cousin Sal Brady

Part 3. In Denver but drives down to SF. Dean has second baby and hand in poor shape. Party in SOMA and Carlo Marx on trumpet

Makes it to SF, spends time eating and in clubs. Later leaves Dean and Camille. Dean has lots of energy but switches to another thing

Tuscon

New York, PA, new Orleans. Driving around and got in trouble. Old Bull

Meet with Dean and travel again. Ed follows around. Marylou stays with Dean

Picking cotton in Sabinal with Terry. Wanders with hobo in Pa, Leaves for NY

Stole ice cream. Went betting with Remi and lost, upsetting Lee Ann. Dinner with Remis father goes bad - leaving SF

Was in Denver, now with Remi in Frisco (SF). Working as guard

Finally with Carlo Marx and dean in Denver

Starting to drive around with friend

Brock gets one last look at Prarie who knows he isn’t her father. Vato and blood capture Brock along with DL and Takeshi who live together. Prarie heads somewhere

Frenesi visits Vineland as set. Hector wants to film stuff. Zoyd wandering around, expanded house but might be taken by Reagan and zealous anti drug people