The streets of Berkeley were the pull for people bucking the system. The soundtrack of the sixties, the funky lingo of the sixties, protests, guns and the call for armed struggle against oppression, black friends, black lovers, black writings - all form part of a brave new world once she crosses the bridge from high school to college, from junior college to SF State, from Oakland and Berkeley to San Francisco. As Geniece pursues her education diligently, she receives a different sort of education. The novel has four sections: Freshman, sophomore, Junior, Senior. As she reports for the college newspaper on the black power movement, her own activism is sparked and eventually leads her to make a life-changing decision. She begins as a reporter for the school newspaper and narrates her story with a trained journalist’s ear for dialogue and gritty details. A smart young African American on the cusp of revolution at Oakland City College in 1964, Geniece meets many activists and intellectuals.
At first meet, Geniece sounds like a typical young woman off to college, meeting her first boyfriend, losing her virginity, building new friendships, questioning her ideals, and juggling her busy schedule with a part–time job. Virgin Soul focuses on the college years of Geniece Hightower - “Niecy” to the aunts and uncles who raised her. Written in first-person point of view, Virgin Soul is the semi-autobiographical tale of a young woman's struggle for identity and purpose during one of the most politically and racially charged eras of American history.
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