December's Children — Michael Loyd Gray

It's 1966 and as the Rolling Stones conquer America, 17-year-old Billy Ray Fleener flees the Republican gravitational pull of Argus, Illinois, the conservative strictness of his father, and a future career in plumbing supplies for a road trip to Helena, Arkansas, to visit the grave of his Uncle Milt, who was killed in Vietnam. Along the way Billy Ray meets Elvis Presley, militant nuns, a con man, and a would-be rock band called Gravy Is Groovy.