β Scribed by Joanna Rose
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
A girl grows up among Colorado hippies in this "powerful story about coming of age in the 1970s . . . An amazing book" (Richmond Times-Dispatch).
Sarajean Henry lives with a Vietnam veteran she accepts as her father. When she comes home, Jimmy might be preparing dinnerβor he might be shooting up. Her mother, whoever she was, disappeared long ago. Sarajean scams her way through childhood, surviving on intuition, smoking pot by age ten. Gathering carelessly discarded clues in this rootless world of communal living, drugs, and adults who reject the traditional trappings of adulthood, she slowly attempts to solve the mystery of where she came fromβand piece together the identity she's always longed for.
"Sometimes sweet, sometimes frightening, sometimes hauntingly beautiful" (Statesman Journal), this novel offers both an up-close look at a historically tumultuous moment in American culture, and a timeless look at "an oddly...
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