![]() Her mother is ‘checked-out’ for much of the story and is at best an unfit mother and at worst a criminally negligent parent. The story is told mostly from the point of view of fourteen year old Shoshanna. There is another darker reason that prompted them to flee when they did which is revealed further into the book. They fled the commune because hunger, violence, drugs and chaos had become the norm on the commune. They have fled from Shoshanna’s abusive father Adam. ![]() Shoshanna, her sister Mara and their mother have fled Sweet Earth Farm, a commune they had been living at for five years. The hippie movement is basically over, but there are still many hold-out hippies living on communes or clinging to their old neighborhoods even as they decline around them. This book is set in 1972 (coincidentally that was the year I was born). This book can be considered historical fiction since the events take place 43 years in the past. * I received a free copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.* ![]()
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