Hippie Chick

By Ilene English,

Book cover of Hippie Chick: Coming of Age in the '60s

Book description

* There are 77.5 million boomers living today who came of age in the same time English did.

* About 32 million Americans have used psychedelic drugs at least once in their lifetimes.

* Memoir is one of the top-selling categories of adult nonfiction, and, as of 2017, adult nonfiction…

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1 author picked Hippie Chick as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

A book that satisfies your voyeurism over one of the most exciting times in recent history, without the risk:

A fantastic memoir of a woman during the druggie, free-love, off-the-grid early days of the counterculture—those who tuned in, turned on, and dropped out. It tells you everything you need to know about life as a hippie in the 60s, spurred by refusal to submit to convention or an unjust war.

It was a wild time of experimentation and reckless behavior, by an author who ended up, ironically, as a family counsellor.  

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