“Unraveling the Truth: What Carolyn Niethammer Reveals About Our Misconceptions”
If you enjoyed books like “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test” by Tom Wolfe or “On the Road” by Jack Kerouac, you’ll love this one.
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In Everything We Thought We Knew, Niethammer immerses us in the back to the land movement of the early 1970’s to explore what constitutes a good life. Is it the untested visions of idealistic youth or the compromises that inevitably define middle age? She leads us to believe we are on a journey to a commune, but the road leads back to ourselves and how the decisions we make at each inflection of time create unexpected ripples. We are all destined to move forward, in the worlds of her protagonist, “under the burden of the lack of a complete idea.” Niethammer’s very readable prose creates a worthy trip.
– Margaret Grundstein, author of Naked in the Woods: My Unexpected Years in a Hippie Commune.
