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"A work of stunning lyricism and intense originality"(Mary Gordon, author of Pearl). From an award-winning short story writer comes this spare, lively, moving novel, quickly embraced by critics and readers, portraying the strangely celebrated and unsupervised childhood of four hippie offspring in the 1970s and 80s. Based on the author's own upbringing, Flower Children tells the story of four children growing up in rural Pennsylvania, impossibly at odds with their surroundings. In time, as the sheltered utopia their parents have created begins to collapse, the children long for structure and…
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3 editions- Ebook · English · 2008Penguin Group (USA), Inc. · 9781436232739
- Other · English · 2008Riverhead Books · 211 pages · 9781594483110
- Other · English · 2007Riverhead Books · 211 pages · 9781594489457
LiteratureBildungsromansFictionFamily relationshipsHippiesHistoryNew York Times reviewedFiction, coming of age






