{"product_id":"the-freedom-dreamers-9781733866019","title":"The Freedom Dreamers","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Alicia Brown\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Peachtree Content\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Peachtree Content\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Coming of Age\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo parents. No teachers. And only one rule: Be free.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e But her new life isn't all peace and flowers: the specter of the war is ever-present, and some of the tribe's risk-taking comes at a tragic price. Are they really changing the world? Or are they just dreaming?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Alicia Brown's debut novel captures the energy of the turbulent sixties: the music, the experimentation, the fear of the draft, and the hippie culture's alluring offer of total freedom and belonging.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e --Janet Nichols Lynch\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peachtree Content","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45134751793303,"sku":"9781733866019","price":801.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781733866019.webp?v=1767908124","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-freedom-dreamers-9781733866019","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}