Radishes and Red Bandanas is a work of historical fiction that tells the story of Becky Jamison?s journey through the turbulent times of the late 1960s. As she leaves her small town in Kentucky to attend college near Chicago, Becky confronts the political and cultural turmoil of the times?protests, demonstrations, occupations, riots, assassinations, drugs, and free-love. As a woman, Becky will never have to fight in a war she doesn?t believe in, but the draft comes to her in its hunger for her brothers, friends, and lovers. She watches their agonizing decisions?escape to Canada, go to jail, apply for conscientious objector status, end up in Vietnam. Time and again, Becky finds love and loses it. Interspersed throughout the novel are vignettes of her son?s protests and arrests during the Occupy Wall Street Movement forty years later. In this coming-of-age novel, Becky Jamison realizes the importance of speaking out no matter the cost and discovers the redemptive power of love to heal in times of tragedy.