About the Book
In this coming-of-age memoir, Sharon takes you with her on a nail-biting adventure through the early 1970s after leaving her sheltered home life at sixteen years old to join the hippies. Yearning for freedom, she lands in an adult world for which she is unprepared, and must learn quickly in order to survive.
As Sharon navigates the US and Canada—whether by hitchhiking, bicycle, or the back of a motorcycle—she experiences love and heartbreak, discovers who she can and cannot trust, and awakens to the Women’s Liberation movement while living in a rural off-grid commune. In this colorful memoir, she reflects upon the changes that reshaped her during that decade, and how the ways in which she and her peers threw off the rules meant to keep women in their place has transformed and empowered the lives of girls and women today.
My Review
I don’t read memoirs on the regular, but I was intrigued to understand what the early 1970s looked like, especially for such a young woman. I thought Sharon’s story was easy to follow and written in a way that kept me interested in her life and her journey, and there was definitely inspiration to find from her struggles and triumphs. With memoirs not being my main genre there were a few moments that I felt I was lagging behind while reading, but I think that’s just a personal reading preference for me. My eyes were definitely opened to a world I have never experienced and I enjoyed learning from a new perspective and left the book having even more respect for the women before me.
3.5 stars
