Though We Be Dead, Yet Our Day Will Come

Tito Perdue's *Though We Be Dead, Yet Our Day Shall Come* is a novella about the advancement of American civilization as revealed by the sixtiethhigh school reunion of the Class of 1956 from a small Alabama town. The narrator sardonically catalogs the "progress" of his classmates in terms of divorces, abortions, addictions, suicides, arrests, and sex change operations, which progressive thinkers tend to regard as negligible epiphenomena of long-overdue revolutionary advances in social justice and self-actualization. This is a book for those who are not quite ready to celebrate the end of history just yet.