Family

By Micol Ostow

Subjects: Communal living, Abused women, Runaways, fiction, Women, fiction, Violence, fiction, Hippies, fiction, Missing persons, California, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Runaways, Violence, Hippies, Collective settlements, fiction, History, Cults

Description: In the 1960s, seventeen-year-old Melinda leaves an abusive home for San Francisco, meets the charismatic Henry, and follows him to his desert commune where sex and drugs are free, but soon his "family" becomes violent against rich and powerful people and she is compelled to join in.