the glimpse traveler  <b>a stunning, poetic memoir “that will transport readers to a time when a nation’s youth searched for meaning against the backdrop of the vietnam war” (<i>publishers weekly</i>).</b><br /> <br /> when she joins a pair of hitchhikers on a trip to california, a young midwestern woman embarks on a journey of memory, beauty, and realization. this true story, set in 1971, recounts a fateful, nine-day trip into the american counterculture that begins on a whim and quickly becomes a mission to unravel a tragic mystery.<br /> <br /> the narrator’s path leads her to berkeley, san francisco, mill valley, big sur, and finally to an abandoned resort motel that has become a down-on-its-luck commune in the desert of southern colorado. <i>the glimpse traveler</i> describes with wry humor and deep feeling what it was like to witness a peculiar and impossibly rich time.<br /> <br /> “a perceptive, engaging, intimate chronicle of the early 1970s, the road-weary hippie hitchhikers, the anti-war sentiment, the dope-induced haze. boruch . . . captures this very specific, significant time and place with exquisite clarity and lyric detail and description.” <b>—</b>dinty moore, author of<i> between panic and desire</i>