If Not the Whole Truth by Claire Arbogast Genre: Literary Fiction / Coming of Age ISBN: 9798990301801 Print Length: 374 pages Reviewed by Erica Ball If Not the Whole Truth starts in the turbulent year of 1969 when college-age…  | By IndieBookView on August 26, 2024 | If Not the Whole Truth by Claire Arbogast Genre: Literary Fiction / Coming of Age ISBN: 9798990301801 Print Length: 374 pages Reviewed by Erica Ball If Not the Whole Truth starts in the turbulent year of 1969 when college-age Connie hears the call for change. Forced into secretarial school by her overbearing, intolerant father and submissive mother, she rejects their direction. Instead, she sets out for her dream life in California among the newly dubbed Woodstock Nation. She feels in her gut that her life needs to be fundamentally different than the one her parents want for her, but she doesn't know exactly what that looks like. Despite having aimed for California, some friends convince Connie to try Chicago. This begins a pattern of moving from city to city, and new idea to new idea, in an attempt to find what she's looking for. Along the way, she tries out many of the new ways of living that American counterculture was experimenting with at the time. Among these are the LSD-laced psychedelic music scene, free love, back-to-the-land collectives, social change movements, and organizations like the Black Panthers, and the Young Lords fighting for Puerto Rican independence. | | | |
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