Drop City
by T. Coraghessan Boyle · first published 2003
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"It is 1970, and a down-at-the-heels California commune devoted to peace, free love and the simple life has decided to relocate to the last frontier - the unforgiving landscape of interior Alaska - in the ultimate expression of going back to the land. The novel opposes two groups of characters: Sess Harder, his wife, Pamela, and other young Alaskans who are already successfully homesteading in the wilderness, and the brothers and sisters of "Drop City," led by Norm Sander and three idealistic emigres from the east coast, Star, her boyfriend, Marco, and Ronnie. As these two communities collid
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If you don't mind fiction, I can recommend Drop City by T.C. Boyle. It's about a hippie commune moving from California to a remote town in Alaska.
on “The Lure of a Better Life, Amid Cold and Darkness” ↗…(being older than the hippies and not temperamentally suited to an optimistic worldview anyway), that it is completely worth your time. Another reference point, come to think of it, is T.C. Boyle’s novel Drop City, which also features an idealistic commune that starts out in California and relocates (kids and all) to a remote place once the Man catches up to them. It also does not end well. (Edited to add: not…
on “Surviving Jonestown” ↗