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A COMING-OF-AGE STORY SET IN 1960s SAN FRANCISCO—WHERE PROTEST, PURPOSE, AND SELF-DISCOVERY COLLIDE.Young reporter Jack McClure is desperate to escape the newsroom grind and make a name for himself. His shot arrives when he's sent to cover the 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love.The assignment? Dean Simmons—a reclusive former movie star and once-famous voice of the counterculture.But Dean doesn’t want to be found. What begins as a simple article pulls Jack into the fading light of Haight-Ashbury, where peace and protest once burned brightly—and where the past still clings to the present like fog on the bay.As Jack chases the story, he’s drawn into Dean’s world of vanished fame and stubborn ideals, and begins to question what he's really searching for.Set in a city shaped by reinvention and forgetting, Learning to Haight is a quietly powerful novel about identity, longing, and what remains after the movement fades.The city changes people.What will it do to Jack?In a city built on dreams, whose story gets remembered? Read more
