The year is 1967 and Rigby John Klusener seventeen years old and finally leaving his home and family in Pocatello Idaho is on the highway with his thumb out of ... » 

The year is 1967 and Rigby John Klusener seventeen years old and finally leaving his home and family in Pocatello Idaho is on the highway with his thumb out of a flower behind his ear headed for San Francisco. Now Is the Hour is the story of how Rigby John got to his point. It traces gradual emancipation from the repressions of a strictly religious farming family and from the smallminded bigoted community in which he has grown up in a time of explosive cultural change. The year is 1967 and Rigby John Klusener seventeen years old and finally leaving his home and family in Pocatello Idaho is on the highway with his thumb out of a flower behind his ear headed for San Francisco. Now Is the Hour is the story of how Rigby John got to his point. It traces gradual emancipation from the repressions of a strictly religious farming family and from the smallminded bigoted community in which he has grown up in a time of explosive cultural change. «