Suggestions for memoirs about being raised by hippie/crunchy/alternative parents?

[Clare]

My crunchy mama club is looking for memoirs about being raised by hippie/crunchy/alternative parents. Like the glass castle but with better parents. Recs?

[Moloch]

Running with Scissors, maybe

[Cumbling Michael]

I don't think this is a request for a specific book. Possibly in the wrong category?

[Liralen]

Haven't read any of these (yet), but they might suit:

Pagan Time
Notes from Nethers: Growing Up in a Sixties Commune
North of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both

[Teresa]

On a rather lighter front, there's Monkey Food: The Complete "I Was Seven in '75" Collection.

[Moloch]

Mike wrote: "I don't think this is a request for a specific book. Possibly in the wrong category?"

Oh I know: I was suggesting "Running etc", it's the first title that came to mind, although I haven't read it so I'm not 100% sure it fits

[BookWoman]

Possibly A Girl Named Zippy - Haven Kimmel.

[Claire]

How Not to Be Popular is YA fiction, not a memoir, but the MC did have crazy hippie parents. And i loved that book! I would recommend it to anyone.

[JoAnne]

Chelsea Cain's first book, Dharma Girl, is a memoir.

[Krazykiwi]

Alternative yes, crunchy not so much, but have you guys read Possum Living: How to Live Well Without a Job and with (Almost) No Money

"In the late ‘70s, at the age of 18, and with a seventh-grade education, Dolly Freed wrote Possum Living about the five years she and her father lived off the land on a half-acre lot outside of Philadelphia. Known for its plucky narration and no-nonsense practical advice on how to live frugally while keeping up a middle class facade, at the time of its original publication, Possum Living became an instant classic."

She went on to be an aerospace engineer, having pretty much self-educated herself out of the public library. The book is a real hoot to read, I think a book club would have a grand time with it. Tin House even has a book club guide: http://www.tinhouse.com/possum-living...

There's some neat videos and other info here:
http://www.resilience.org/stories/201...

(Yes I adore this book, and Dolly Freed)

[HeavyReader]

Teresa wrote: "On a rather lighter front, there's Monkey Food: The Complete "I Was Seven in '75" Collection."

I love this book! Highly recommended.

You might also like The Amazing "True" Story of a Teenage Single Mom by Katherine Arnoldi.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Hollywood Park

[Rainbowheart]

The Hypocrisy of Disco
Split: A Counterculture Childhood
Wild Child: Girlhoods in the Counterculture
Rebel Mother: My Childhood Chasing the Revolution
Free Spirit: Growing Up On the Road and Off the Grid
Dharma Girl: A Road Trip Across the American Generations

[theStorykeeper]

Wild Life: Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs is about a woman whose parents were scientists studying baboons, so she spent most of her childhood on a campsite in the African wilderness

[Rainbowheart]

Filthy Beasts: A Memoir
The Territory of Men: A Memoir
All the Fishes Come Home to Roost: An American Misfit in India
A House with No Roof: After My Father's Assassination, A Memoir

[Rainbowheart]

By the Forces of Gravity: A Memoir
Freckled: A Memoir of Growing Up Wild in Hawaii
Bruce & Me: A Daughter and Her Fraudulent Father
The Next Better Place: Memories of My Misspent Youth
To the Moon and Back: A Childhood Under the Influence