Remembering Stardust

By: C. D. Baker

Narrated by: Stuart Bentley

What will it take to find the place you've always belonged?

Eighteen-year-old Oliver Goode is not that different from the small-town church folks he’s grown up around in Wheatley, Pennsylvania. But the tumultuous mid-60s and the long-buried traumas of his past are about to change all that. While his hard-fisted father pushes him to become a man, Ollie tries to elude his toxic pastor, keep his job at the general store, and enjoy a certain beauty named Stardust Hopewell. When his best friend heads out for Vietnam and tensions continue to grow at home, his inner war escalates. Soon, he’ll have to decide where his true peace is found.

A deeply affecting journey of shedding anxiety, Remembering Stardust is a story from the heartland of our recent American past. How do we become who we were always meant to be? Where do we discover the grace to live out loud? And how do we finally learn that there’s far more to life than the fear we’ve always known?

©2022 C. David Baker (P)2023 C. David Baker