Suzanne Helling has been living a nomadic life since she went through the 1970 Kent State shootings , and she winds up in Los Angeles as a teaching assistant to history professor Solomon Braithwaite . Ten years earlier , his marriage ended , and he tried to kill himself . While comatose from his drug overdose , his unconscious mind took flight and created the land of Gryylth , which he patterned subconsciously on 5th-century Roman Britain , in a corner of the cosmos . Though Gryylth bears a superficial similarity to ancient Britain , there are anachronisms : the inhabitants speak modern English ; no one remembers more than ten years back ; and Gryylth is an incomplete land — it ends in mist and nothingness in the surrounding ocean
Kent State shootings
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