Wild Child: Girlhoods in the Counterculture by Chelsea Cain & Moon Unit Zappa

Author:Chelsea Cain & Moon Unit Zappa [Cain, Chelsea & Zappa, Moon Unit]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literary Collections, Social History - 1960-1970, Social Science, 1960-1970, Hippies - United States, United States - History - 1961-1969, Girls, Hippies, General, United States, American, Literary Criticism, Girls - United States - History - 20th Century, Social History, Essays, Fiction, Girls - United States, 20th Century, Biography, History
ISBN: 9781580050319
Publisher: Seal Press
Published: 1999-01-02T04:00:00+00:00

Nostalgia is a funny thing. I remember vividly the very air of San Antonio, the warm, sweet, almost rotten smell of the river and the jungle, the feel of green clay between my fingers. I remember the taste of ripe guava and the taste of guava not quite ripe but eaten anyway. I remember all the words to ‘Springtime in the Rockies,’ a sentimental song our friend Lohinos played, the light of the kerosene lantern shining on his polished guitar. Everything from the language to the air was new to me, and so I noticed everything, without knowing I noticed it. I learned to see the way I learned Spanish, unaware, and it was in Belize that I learned it.

Now, twenty-two years later, I travel when I can, looking for amazement, for a girl in a blue leotard who seems to have no bones, for plants that wilt at the touch of a finger and then come back to life. Those months in Belize were among the most vivid in my life and I remember them with an ache of longing. But at the time it was a world too raw, too strong for me. And when my mother announced the following year that we were returning to San Antonio, I shook my eight-year-old head and refused to go.

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