Under a Basketball Moon - Perry Ashe

Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll: A GEECHEE boy's tale

Under a Basketball Moon is the coming of age story of Skip walker, the first coach to take a black college team to the NCAA Final Four. Born in the 1960's during the Hippie revolution, growing up during the school desegregation era in the regentrifying city of Charleston, South Carolina, now likely the world's top tourist destination, in his diaries, Skip, a video gamer of some repute, takes us on a wild ride that ends with the inauguration of the first black president of the United States.

Skip's wife and childhood sweetheart, Veronica Browning Walker, likely the highest compensated labor arbitration is an integral character, her son and wards being student-athletes subject to the NCAA's draconian rules when it comes to players sharing in the economic largesse provided to college athletics by the advent of TV, cable advertising money and revenue from sneaker and jersey sales.

Cameos by three POTUS' and a host of other celebrities, Under a Basketball Moon is a hilarious Alice in Wonderland influenced, Forrest Gump-like tale whose ending may have implications on the real world of college sports.

Male bonding- the masculine principle of one-upmanship, women always getting their man, and the intersection of amateurism and money are constant themes in Under a Basketball Moon, a Charleston novel after all that could be called 'North of Broad'. Heavily influenced by Thomas Wolfe's 'A MAN IN FULL', Phillip Roth's 'THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL', and Lewis Carrol's 'ALICE IN WONDERLAND.