Huerfano: A Memoir of Life in the Counterculture
A wonderful memoir of learning, doing, sharing, and loving.... The sunshine of this book is in the telling: humorous, resonant, occasionally pained, but always life-embracing.(Foreword)A splendid book that beautifully captures the spirit of the moment, and it does so in the best possible way -- by recollecting and working through the specific details so often lost to memory and history. Huerfano is a virtual archive of data -- an early edition of The Whole Earth Catalog come to life with a compelling narrative and vivid characters.(Nick Bromell, author of Tomorrow Never Knows: Rock and Psychedelics in the 1960s)An impressive and important book. There is a paucity of good literature on the commune movement of the 60s and 70s, and much stereotypic misrepresentation of the counterculture. What Price's memoir reminds us is that the counterculture was intensely political, although the politics were personal as well as national.(Alexander Bloom, coeditor of "Takin' It to the Streets": A Sixties Reader)Roberta Price's 'Huerfano' evokes life in the New Age commune movement of the 60s and 70s.(Vanity Fair)[F]or many people a road not taken that is fascinating to read about... Sweet children, with a sweet, sweet dream.(Los Angeles Times Book Review)I like this book. I like its attention to detail, its honesty, and the author's clear distinctive voice.... More than a tale of communes and hippies, Huerfano is a classic coming-of-age story, in which a young woman learns life's lessons, one by one.(The Santa Fe New Mexican)Roberta Price's book captures the moral fervor, the enormous amount of work, the sexual explorations, and the personal growth curve of one very smart, very attractive, highly educated woman who 'threw it all away' (as her parents might have said) to found an alternative community in the mountains of Colorado.... This is a very very good book and deserves a wide audience.(Peter Coyote, actor and author of Sleeping Where I Fall: A Chronicle)