Jeffrey Hord

I found Alicia Brown's debut novel to be well-written, fast-paced, and engaging...which is a significant endorsement, coming from a male in his mid-thirties (not exactly the "target audience" of a YA-novel written from the perspective of a 16-year old girl in 1968!). There was a lot in Jill's backstory to which I could relate, and I never found it difficult to picture the scenes the author was describing. The story really picked up for me after the "be-in" scene, after which Jill is faced with mounting choices with potentially far-reaching consequences. Would highly recommend to anyone looking to learn about or relive the late 1960s, and to any fan of young adult novels that don't rely on a sci-fi / fantasy / dystopian "crutch" to tell their story.