Pagan Time (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781582431475)

With little more than a run-down Jeep and their newborn baby in tow, author Micah Perks' parents set out in 1963 to build a school and a utopian community in the mountains. The school would become known as a place to send teens with drug addictions and emotional problems, children with whom Micah and her sister would grow up.

This complex memoir mixes a moving celebration of the utopian spirit and its desire for community and freedom with a lacerating critique of the consequences of those desires -- especially for the children involved. How could the campaign for a perfect home and family create such confusion and destruction? The '60s, for many, became a laboratory of hope and chaos, as young idealists tested the limits of possibility.

Micah Perks has cast her unflinching and precise eye on her own history and has illuminated not only those years of her childhood, but a wide-open moment that marked our culture for all time.

Author: Micah Perks
ISBN-10: 1582431477
ISBN-13: 9781582431475
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Language: English
Published: 08/16/2001
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 8.59h x 5.81w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/09/2001 pg. 55
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2001 pg. 1007
Booklist 08/01/2001 pg. 2076
Library Journal 09/01/2001 pg. 213
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2002 pg. 223