Plan Z by Leslie Kove: A Novel

As a little girl growing up in Squitchit, New York, Leslie Kove doubtless imagined that she and her two siblings would one day marry, have kids, and make ordinary productive lives for themselves. But, by 1970, her brother, Peter, has died in Vietnam. Her sister, Susan, a scholarship student at Bennington College in Vermont, has changed her name to Sabra-Sou and dances topless in political demonstrations. And Leslie, a high school senior, has no idea what to say when people ask her what she's going to do with her life: She needs a plan. This first-person, picaresque novel begins with Leslie's visit to her sister, Susan/Sabra-Sou, at Bennington in May 1970 and continues over two decades as Leslie attempts to formulate a workable plan for her life.