Hippie Chick - by Ilene English (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In the midst of teenage rebellion, English, the youngest of six, finds her mother dead in the bathroom. Alone with a difficult father, she is sent a one-way ticket from New Jersey to San Francisco, embarking upon a journey that takes her through the earliest days of the counterculture, psychedelics, and free love, on into single parenthood, and eventually a place of fully owning her own strengths and abilities.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>In <i>Hippie Chick</i>, a rebellious teenager finds her mother dead in the bathroom. To save her from living alone with a difficult father, her older sister sends her a one-way plane ticket to leave New Jersey. Landing in San Francisco, she is thrust into a lifestyle way beyond what she is ready for, and that challenges all previous notions of how one behaves. It is 1963, and we are brought along as Ilene becomes immersed in the unfolding of the sixties during the earliest days of sexual freedom, psychedelic drugs, the jazz scene, and rock 'n' roll. This is a deeply personal story of how one young woman manages to survive and even to thrive in the face of the whirlwind of experiences coming at her. It is filled with a rich tapestry of moments that run the gamut from the sublime to the ridiculous, and everything in between.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><b>2020 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards Silver Winner in Autobiography & Memoir</b><br> <b>2020 Readers' Favorite Book Awards Silver Medal in Non-Fiction: Historical</b><br> <b>2020 CIBA Journey Book Awards Finalist<br></b> <b>2021 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist in Women's Issues (Non-Fiction)<br> 2021 International Book Awards Finalist in Autobiography/Memoir <p/></b> "To have lived all of this with such relish, loved and lost so many times, and emerged as someone centered in a career, happily married, with a grown daughter who loves her: that is something to be proud of and amazed by." <br> --Mark Matousek, teacher and author of <i>When You're Falling, Dive</i> <p/> "Ilene English, a woman warrior with a wide-open heart, was already breaking racial and sexual taboos before the flowering of the counterculture. Her spare, candid style is the perfect vehicle to carry the reader from East Coast to West-Coast, traditional life to Bohemian freedom, and ultimately to the flowering of wisdom. I so enjoyed this book."<br> --Peter Coyote, actor, author, and Zen Buddhist priest <p/> "For those who remember the sixties--which began in the mid-1950s and didn't end until the mid-1970s--and who think it was always groovy to be a 'hippie chick, ' Ilene English's new memoir will provide a rude awakening. This first-person narrative tells it like it was on the Farm in Tennessee; in Eugene, Oregon, a beehive of hippie activity; and on the hippie highway, which stretched from coast to coast. For those who want to experience, vicariously, a time when hippie chicks felt 'juicy and sexy, ' as English says she felt, well, dig it, man."<br> --Jonah Raskin, author of <i>Rock and Roll Women: Portraits of a Generation</i><br>
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