EUGENIA AT THE CROSSROADS
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“War is a losing cause for the common folks. The only winners are the industries that benefit from wars, the lobbyists who sponsor them, and the politicians, who are never exposed to the battle. If you love your country, you have the chance to prove it here on this campus. Study! Get your degree, and you have the strongest armor to serve yourself, your family, your country, and the entire world.” His voice was drowned out by a cheering frenzy and prolonged applause before he concluded. “… Responsibility must be shared, and commitment goes both ways. Unconditional allegiance is for serfs only! Dear friends, learn how to be free citizens of the world, not subjects of the state! Thank you.” Students, parents, and faculty members stood on chairs and applauded as the meeting ended. Siegfried left the room, but the crowd was still cheering. The atmosphere was electrifying. The audience chanted rhythmically, “Blue Ice! Blue Ice!” “Austro-Germany is apparently a breeding ground for charismatic orators who cause mass hysteria,” Trudy Ann mentioned. Jenny lost her temper. “Excuse me? Say another word about Siegfried, and you’ll be looking for a new place to sleep.” She walked away, pushing through the crowd. “Oh my, Jenny likes the German guy!” Trudy Ann grinned.
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They met in the rebellious campus of Columbia University during the 1960s, the days of the Civil Rights, women’s movement and the anti-Vietnam war protests. Jenny was a post-grad aspiring to transform her activism into a journalistic crusade; Siegfried a young and handsome German law student charismatic and unyielding haunted by his family’s past. Random encounters soon turned into sleepless nights; a passionate love story was born! In 1968 Siegfried arrived in Rhodesia (current day Zimbabwe) a break-away British colony in Southern Africa, as a member of a legal U.N. team to investigate human rights violations and a few weeks later Jenny flies there to meet him with her wedding gown in her suitcase. Here in this exotic but racially segregated paradise, the couple witnessed in the impoverished African townships and the countryside, what oblivious white settlers refuse to accept, and what the hardline white regime’s propaganda machine systematically conceals: a fast-approaching African revolution. When Jenny crossed paths with an unconventional and scientific warfare contractor, an immense figure of unparallel political influence, wealth and charms and repressive colonial military background, she will -unintentionally- find herself in the shadowy corridors of Southern Africa’s deep state operating behind the mainstream political smokescreen. She will also discover a dark side she never imagined existed: her own. Placed against a historical backdrop that spans from the hedonistic Cabaret Berlin of 1920s, wartime Germany and Nazi occupied Greece to the 1960s America, and the apartheid era in South Africa; And from Southern Africa’s killing fields to the 108th floor of World Trade Center’s north tower on September 11, 2001, Ms. Y is a cross-genre psychological drama, epic in scope, that deconstructs rather than glorifies power, examines the depths of human controversy, delivers provocative social messages and blends history, mythical allegory and fictional narrative in a fast-pacing plot dominated by three bigger than controversial protagonists tested by love and promiscuity, moral conflicts and momentous circumstances.
About the Author
George Constantine “Ákis” Awgérinós was born and raised in Athens, Greece, and lives in New York City. Visit him at www.EugeniaAtTheCrossroads.com.