New book release: Everything We Thought We Knew - by Carolyn Niethammer

 

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In 1970, Christie left behind the comforts of L.A. and joined a New Age commune in rural Arizona. With the Vietnam War raging and the counterculture movement in full swing, she hoped to find her place in the world and create a better society. But building a new social order is no easy task, especially when free love, psychedelics, and a war protest gone horribly wrong are thrown into the mix.

While dancing under the moon in an Indian ruin, Christie reconnects with a lover from a past life, setting in motion events that reverberate through their futures. The end of the commune is not the end of the story. Thirty years later, a child born there forces long-held secrets to be revealed, and everyone's lives are changed forever.

If you're a fan of the Woodstock generation, or simply curious about the counterculture of the 1960s, this book will transport you back to this tumultuous era.

Put on your tie-dyed shirt and come to Bella Vida as the friends try to change the rules of modern society, then face the repercussions when middle age sets in.

If you enjoyed books like "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" by Tom Wolfe or "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac, you'll love this one.

About the author:

I grew up in the little mountain town of Prescott, Arizona, studied journalism at the University of Arizona, and began my writing life working for a local paper. The subjects of my books all relate to the Southwest-five on the foods of the region, including edible wild plants, three on Native American women, one travelogue on Southeastern Arizona, and two western novels. For my first book, I traveled through Arizona and New Mexico in an old rattletrap car in the early 1970s talking to Native American women on how they used the wild plants around them. I get an enormous amount of pleasure picking and eating wild plants or plants from my garden, whether it is just one berry popped into my mouth on a hike or an elaborate dessert made in my kitchen.

To share my passion for Southwest plant foods, I share a blog with three other women and we post about whatever plant is in season and give a recipe or two at Savor the Southwest. Please follow us.

I currently live in Tucson, Arizona, with my husband, Ford Burkhart.