A True Story That Reads Like a Gripping Historical Novel
It's 1970. The Summer of Love is a distant dream, betrayed by the ripoffs and bad drugs. Jenny Brown, recently escaped from an abusive relationship, stumbles into a utopian community of a hundred people living at a remote Western Massachusetts hilltop farm. Their tales of telepathic communication, past life recall, and apocalyptic messages from disembodied spirits seem ridiculous—until too many things happen that suggest they might be real.
Relive the true-life adventures, friendships, loves, epiphanies and betrayals that took place in one of the best known 1960s counter-cultural communes as they are vividly brought to life in this riveting account of a mid-twentieth century woman's coming-of-age.
Novelist Jenny Brown has crafted this compelling story using her own memories and diaries, extensive interviews with other commune members, and the extensive coverage of the commune's early years published in contemporary books, magazines, and newspapers.
"A very absorbing story,with a really blazing honesty about it that made it riveting." —Diana Gabaldon, 1991 email, referring to an early draft.
"An important work of women's history." —Alicia Rasley, author of The Year She Fell.