HIPPIES
Book I: The Commune
In 1970, six hippies (Mary, Paul, Frank, Helen, Barbara, and Capo)
unite to form a commune in Berkeley. It is a time of radical transformation of Western
culture in general and of the United States culture in particular, and these personable,
adventuresome, young explorers eagerly plunge into the waves of change. As intentional
participants in "The Counterculture," they seek to find themselves, each
other, and workable, loving alternatives to what was known then as "the alienation
of modern man." Their successes and failures reveal much about where we have been,
where we are, and where we are headed.
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HOMESTEADERS
Book II: The Garden
In 1976, Helen and Capo travel to the rural Arkansas Ozarks where
the other four are homesteading thirty acres so that Mary, who has become a midwife,
may help Helen deliver her baby, Kevin. To the central themes of Book
I - namely, interpersonal relationships, freedom and duty, the search for truth
and self, and political action - are added and developed the themes of theology,
ecology, and health.
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YUPPIES
Book III: The Harmonic Convergence
At the bidding of Frank, the mystic among them, the group reunites
again in August of 1987 to celebrate the Harmonic Convergence, two days of focal cosmic
importance within the Mayan and Zapotec prophetic traditions. Although they focus on
these and other end-of-the-age prophecies, as much or more about our human condition
is revealed by the interaction of these six friends, who, by now, have matured from
hippies into yuppies. This novel is only superficially comparable to the film,
The Big Chill: the characters, plots, and themes are entirely different.
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