The Freedom Dreamers

No parents. No teachers. And only one rule: Be free.In 1968 the counterculture is in full swing. Protesting a corrupt war rejecting the norms forced on them by society hippies are trying to live better than the generation before them ... by breaking all its rules. Jill a young runaway longing to be a Broadway star finds acceptance in a makeshift family of fellow outcasts and misfits living on the streets of Manhattan. And with Eric--a handsome dropout just months away from the draftable age of eighteen--she finds the thrilling possibility of first love. But her new life isnt all peace and flowers: the specter of the war is ever-present and some of the tribes risk-taking comes at a tragic price. Are they really changing the world? Or are they just dreaming? Alicia Browns debut novel captures the energy of the turbulent sixties: the music the experimentation the fear of the draft and the hippie cultures alluring offer of total freedom and belonging. Freedom means choices and choices come with grown-up consequences in this fresh lively coming-of-age novel set in NYC during the fast and loose sixties. --Janet Nichols Lynch