Notes from Nethers: Growing Up In A Sixties Commune
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| Highly recommended. The book relates the difficulties and even traumas that the youngest member of a family had to face after being uprooted from a comfortable suburban life and thrust into her mother's "dream" society. The author portrays the other residents of the commune (even ones that might seem less than honorable in terms of honesty and work ethic) with sensitivity and understanding. What is especially interesting is the fact that many of the incidents related could be from the present. A group of the residents went to a three day workshop and came back with a "Secret" that they would share with no one. And meditating upon the secret had to be done under a blanket if a "non-initiate" were near-by. Her short-lived experience at the local elementary school was especially sad. A black teacher effectively ostracizing a Jewish student (Sandra) and white boys making black students leave the sidewalk as they came by could happen today in more subtle ways. Abject poverty in surrounding hills in rural Virginia was also heartbreakingly described. The reader is left to decide for himself or herself about the long term effects and/or fairness of Carla (mother) taking her three daughters and starting this commune at the foot of a mountain. |
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