![]() ![]() It's clear that, as a child, Perks couldn't imagine living outside this world, but also that, as she grew older, she started to understand how much it differed from the average American experience. Anarchy and non-monogamy and a father who at first seems an idealist and later less idealistic and more eccentric. She was raised on the campus of a school for 'problem' kids, in a quasi-commune run primarily by her father. But it is most decidedly counterculture, and in ways that get more complicated as the book goes on. It is not hippies and Woodstock and Malcolm X. ![]() Perks is clear from the beginning that this is not the 60s memoir you might expect. (This is Bo's crystallizing moment-grown-ups will not save you.) (53) ![]() He wades in and grabs her sweater, hauls her out. He sees Beky tumbling towards him in the current. (In her memory, this is the defining moment of her childhood-she does not save herself.)īo is a few feet belong the log. And then she opens her hands and drops off the log. She can't swim, but she thinks, Maybe I should just let go. The stream is pulling at her so intently. Back at the stream, my sister's wool sweater is heavy with water, her rubber boots are filling. ![]()
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