Flower Children - Hardcover

By: Maxine Swann;

Language: English

Quality: Good

Genre: Novel,

ISBN: 9781594489457

SKU: BE500968880154

Pages: 232

Description: Based on the author's own family, "Flower Children" is the amusing, moving, beautifully painted story of four children growing up in rural Pennsylvania, the offspring of devoutly hippie parents. Impossibly at odds with their surroundings, the children find themselves both delighted and unnerved by a life without limits. A swing hangs in the middle of the living room. The children run free all day, dance naked in the rain, and go riding on ponies with the boys who live up the road. But as their childhood is celebrated, the freedoms their parents have given them have also compromised their innocence. In time, their world starts to collapse. The parents split. Puberty hits. The children are mortified by what they know and have seen. They long for structure, normalcy, restraint: the very things their parents have avoided. Haunting and celebratory by turns, "Flower Children" is at once a portrait of childhood's unbridled joy and the story of a unique generation.