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""Sometimes it seems like I've spent my life searching for the words that will open my childhood for you. It's always the same - even as I'm trying to use my story to knock down the wall between us, I can see myself turning into a freak, my childhood a sideshow."". "Thus, Micah Perks begins the story of her struggle to make comprehensible her unorthodox childhood at her family's commune in the Adirondack wilderness. At the core of her book lie memories of her wildly eccentric father, a self-proclaimed pagan intent on demolishing conventional boundaries and morality. With little more than a…
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3 editions- Other · English · 2012Counterpoint Press · 9781619020955
- Other · English · 2009Counterpoint Press · 176 pages · 9781582435398
- Other · English · 2001Counterpoint · 161 pages · 9781582431475
American NovelistsBiographyChildhood and youthCommunal livingEnglish teachersFamilyNovelists, AmericanSocial life and customs






