'One of the funniest most subtle novels we've had about the hippy era's slow fade to black ...
this may be his most affecting emotionally complex novel' ( New York Times Book Review ) Star
has travelled to Drop City - forty-seven sun-washed acres of commune in California - to be free
from her home from society's constraints and to feel part of something important. But she
starts to suspect that free love was invented by some spotty dude who couldn't get laid any
other way and that chilled out means lazy. And as for peace-living there seems to be an ugly
undercurrent of violence. Then when rape charges are brought and the police threaten to close
down Drop City the hippies decamp to the wilds of Alaska where they intend to live off the
land. But instead the community runs into trouble unexpected friendships are made and
dangerous enemies are born.
