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Gifted young
Caroline Ryder comes of age in one of the most pivotal decades
of our time. Tormented by her disturbed mother, she doesn't fit into
the materialistic sameness of her San Francisco Bay Area
"Tupper's Park" neighborhood. Identifying with the plight
of southern blacks, she joins the Civil Rights movement, encounters
pacifists, hears Beat literary voices and radical educators
at Pacific High, explores her sexuality at Big Sur, and boosts
the anti-Vietnam marches in Berkeley, city of her birth.
As the shadows
of the drug culture falls over this post-Beat, pre-Hippie
idealism, sixteen year old Caroline is catapulted to Mexico
where she hitchhikes with nineteen year old Nors and hides out
briefly with writer Ken Kesey's colorful enclave.
When she
finally enters U.C. Berkeley at seventeen, she is called a
"dirty Hippie" by sorority types who will later claim the
Summer of Love as their own. But Caroline Ryder, who lived it, will
always know better.
160
pages, 31 illustrations by the author ISBN
0-9711039-1-7
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