There Ain't No Justice - Just Us

About the Book

Based on an actual wildcat strike that occured in 1979, There Ain’t No Justice, Just Us tells the story of a middle-aged college professor, and former seventies radical, who finds himself caught in the web of a mid-life crisis and a decaying marriage. In his search for a more authentic identity, he winds up leading a wildcat strike in a gritty South Chicago factory. Along the way he encounters a variety of leftists and African-American and Mexican industrial workers who lead genuine, if impoverished, lives.

The wildcat strike becomes the psychological gauntlet through which the characters must pass to achieve personal integration. The professor’s quest for internal wholeness leads to a love affair with a radical feminist attorney and activist. In the end, the professor must choose between authenticity and love, or continuing his sedate, middle-class life.

Ancillary characters, including Cecelia Sanchez, a Mexican-American college student, find themselves drawing psychological strength from the unfolding battle and engaging in their own liberation struggles—in her case, trying to find the inner spirit to move out on her own, away from her patriarchal family.

About the Author

Gregory Alan Norton likes to describe his work as psychopolitical art informed by such Chicago writers as Nelson Algren, James T. Farrell, and Richard Wright. As classic outsider art, it poses a worthy challenge to postmodernism. Norton’s stories have appeared in a variety of literary mazazines and alternative publications. He’s currently at work on a book of short stories, The Infinity of Days in the Psychotic Atomik Empire.

His publication credits include:The Princeton Arts Review, George and mertie´s Place, Rockford Review, Nebo, Missing Spoke Press Anthology, Struggle, Writer´s Corner, Oyez Review, Short Story Bimonthly, Slugfest; America Laid Off, Literature of a Downsized Nation (anthology); and Jack the Daw,a Dallas literary review.