Lost and Found: My Life in a Group Marriage Commune (Counterculture Series)

Rating:
Summary: Fascinating, enlightening
Review: This is the most fascinating book I've read in years. Though structured around one pivotal event in the author's life -- her experience in a utopian commune -- any moment or facet of her life as a whole can come up in the telling at any time, in vivid synchronicity. As an impassioned personal quest (the "Lost" aspect), the story breathlessly sweeps you forward like a thriller. But as "Found"ness, the book also has blissful built-in non-linearity and can be read the way one reads the I Ching -- jumping in anywhere. (As a matter of fact, the Ching itself keeps popping up throughout the story.) One reviewer has said "You don't want this book to end", and that's true, but luckily it doesn't have to end.

Hollenbach has an astonishing ability to get the cadences of natural speech onto the printed page. This is one of the great pleasures of the book: The characters and the protagonist-narrator herself speak so livingly off the page it can be almost eerie.

"Lost and Found" is a rich, profound, enlightening book.

Rating:
Summary: BRILLIANT ! ! !
Review: Tom Wolfe meets Margaret Mead -- in the first person. From inside the head, body and soul. Evocative and familiar. Sexualy revealing and honest. A piece of the 60s told in the most intimate and reflective of voices. One word to this author, "MORE!"