I smoke with the people I want to get high with... This is a real ladies' tea party, Boston style. The bohemians, the flower children-the revolutionaries of the 20th century, who started a paradigm shift that would change America forever. Beatchik illuminates the untold stories of bohemian women who meet in Boston. They are poets, writers, painters, and world-changers... Justine, the artist/poet who works as a model and has an earth-shaking love affair...but marries another man to keep him out of Vietnam. Beth, the Philadelphia socialite at Harvard who drops out and marries the passionate, rough man who is exciting and dangerous to her. Adelene, the pot-smoking Kelly girl who leaves for Haight Ashbury and whose innovative intelligence makes her a successful entrepreneur of Silicon Valley. Freda, the wise oracular mother, who waits tables at a restaurant that caters to the police. Mena, the NYC runaway, and Laurel, the daughter of hippies, who is a genuine flower child. In the spirit of On the Road, this fascinating and stunning roman a clef celebrates the lives of these incendiary women, with a thin veil of fiction guarding their identities. They lived the free spirit of America: they were provocative, vulnerable, courageous, and magnificent. Beatchik is an engaging and eye-opening book that will resonate long after you have savored the final page.
