Tarn Wilson
ASIN: B00K10G6JI
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 382
In this coming-of-age memoir, Tarn Wilson explores the gifts and burdens of a counterculture childhood.In the early 1970s, Wilson’s hippie parents packed the family into a converted school bus with “Suck Nixon” painted on the side and aimed for the Canadian wilderness. They planned to raise their two young children close to the earth and free of shallow middle class values. When they settle on a remote island in British Columbia, their idealism smacks up against reality and threatens to tear apart the family. Between each short lyric chapter, Wilson incorporates “artifacts” that illuminate the cultural forces shaping her parents’ decisions, such as letters, recipes, photographs, timelines, newspaper clippings, and provocative excerpts from A Radical Approach to Child Rearing. With both empathy and clear-eyed honesty, Wilson deconstructs the simplified narratives of the counterculture ...