{"product_id":"pagan-time-an-american-childhood-9781582435398","title":"Pagan Time: An American Childhood","description":"With little more than a run-down Jeep and their newborn baby in tow, author Micah Perks' parents set out in 1963 to build a school and a utopian community in the mountains. The school would become known as a place to send teens with drug addictions and emotional problems, children with whom Micah and her sister would grow up. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis complex memoir mixes a moving celebration of the utopian spirit and its desire for community and freedom with a lacerating critique of the consequences of those desires -- especially for the children involved. How could the campaign for a perfect home and family create such confusion and destruction? The '60s, for many, became a laboratory of hope and chaos, as young idealists tested the limits of possibility. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMicah Perks has cast her unflinching and precise eye on her own history and has illuminated not only those years of her childhood, but a wide-open moment that marked our culture for all time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Catapult\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781582435398\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.16h x 6.56w x 0.48d","brand":"Micah Perks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45369950896309,"sku":"9781582435398","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_0fe8620c-8b77-4700-a554-a0382b2b6653.jpg?v=1747108942","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/pagan-time-an-american-childhood-9781582435398","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}