Coyote Weather

Coyote weather is the feral, hungry season, when everything is drought-stricken and ready to catch fire.

In the face of the Vietnam War and a culture violently remaking itself, Jerry has stubbornly made no plans for the future because he doesn't think that, in the shadow of Vietnam, the Cold War and atomic bomb drills, there is going to be one. Ellen is determined to have a plan, because nothing else seems capable of keeping the world from tilting. And the Ghost, who isn't exactly dead, just wants to go home to a place that won't let him in, the small California town where they all grew up.

from author's website at www.amandacockrell.com/coyote_weather.htm