Ron Argo: 4 books

In this coming-of-age story of love, heroism and murder, a prize-winning author returns to his Alabama childhood during the 1960’s bloody Civil Rights Movement. In the vein of To Kill a Mockingbird, Kirkus Reviews calls the novel “a profound, engrossing … heartbreakingly real novel of the South.” In...

Acclaimed as one of the most important novels of the Vietnam War, Year of the Monkey takes us not only into the savage jungles where death waits in every paddyfield, but into the apocalyptic world of political corruption, where friendship and betrayal become unavoidable, where murder and love are...

The young UC graduate went to her father's beachside condo the night he was murdered, but she doesn't remember shooting him. Janice Parrish had plenty reason to hate her father after recalling memories of the horrible sexual abuse as a child some 20 years ago. But even as she's booked on murder charges,...

The Sum of His Worth is the gripping Southern saga of a free-spirited white boy who tries to defend a Negro friend against a virulent Ku Klux Klan. Set in the violent civil rights era of the 1950s in an Alabama town, the novel gives us a unique view of the tragedies and hardships both black...