Unbroken Promises Unbroken Dreams

M.L., "e;The Mighty Laurence,"e; is the high-spirited college prankster whodrives the novel Unbroken Promises Unbroken Dreams. This coming-ofagelighthearted novel is set at elite Lafayette College against the backdropof the Vietnam war. Until the startling climax, the book is boisterousand full of humor in a time of war and social and political turbulence. Across the four years at Lafayette, M.L. and his band of marauders, knownas The Magnificent Seven, carouse from one escapade to another. As thewar in Southeast Asia rages, the assassinations of Martin Luther King,Jr. and Bobby Kennedy shock the nation, and M.L. begins to develop adeep social conscience. Befriending Emma Lee Scoggins, the Black house mistress of hisdormitory, M.L. is guided by Emma Lee s wisdom. August and reveredmembers of the Lafayette faculty also inspire M.L. Throughout the story,M.L. masterminds outrageous pranks while plumbing his soul for whatit means to be a man of conscience.