Pagan Time: An American Childhood - Paperback

by Micah Perks (Author)

With little more than a run-down Jeep and their newborn baby in tow, author Micah Perks' parents set out in 1963 to build a school and a utopian community in the mountains. The school would become known as a place to send teens with drug addictions and emotional problems, children with whom Micah and her sister would grow up.

Author Biography

Micah Perks is the author of the novel We Are Gathered Here. Her stories have twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and she is the recipient of a Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts grant, two fellowships at the Blue Mountain Center for the Arts, and an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship. Perks lives in Santa Cruz, where she is an associate professor of literature at the University of California.