Ragamuffin's Tale: Growing up in counterculture

The story reflects a reality often glossed over: what happens to some kids born into a certain circle of poets, artists and dealers when one of their parents gets too heavily into smuggling and using drugs. If it weren't such a universal cautionary family tale, you might be forgiven for reading the story as one long name drop of the who's who in the cultural revolution: from the first chapter, in which Charley recalls experiences of meeting Jimi Hendrix, where he was famously filmed on stag...