I think Fred Nerks has done a lot of research about the timing of the book. I bow to superior research conclusions, whatever they are.
I was under the impression that the seduced girl was Jamaican and it was his first wife involved, not the one he was married to in HI.
I don’t have a dog in the hunt.
I don’t have a dog in the hunt.
The book was thinly disguised FICTION, so he could call his characters anything he wanted. As I understand it, the purpose of the book was to tittilate the reader. It was PORN, after all. So, set it in another time, make the characters a different race, change the age slightly, but provide salacious details that will keep the reader captivated. Now it's hard for a writer to make up really salacious details unless they have some experience along that line. It can seem phony. That is why fiction is never truly fiction. It is always based on something. This time he didn't even really change the NAME.
Of course that is if FMD is the father. It's all baloney if he isn't. We'll probably never know.