A True Story that Reads Like A Gripping 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, numerous interviews with other commune members, and the extensive coverage of the commune's early years that was published in contemporary books, magazines, and newspapers.
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Early Readers' Praise
"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.
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Recent Reviews
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"So well-written and I found it very compelling, what a great book!!" —Amazon Reviewer
"Jenny Brown write with supple use of language, connecting the readers with the outer circumstances of her time in this commune, as well as with her own inner realities."
—Amazon Reviewer
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"It was riveting. Once I started reading, I couldn’t put it down."
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