Drop City - T.C. Boyle

Completed Feb. 13 4/5

This one was on a personalized reading list I got from the library. It's about a hippie commune in California that moves to Alaska to truly live off the earth. I was hesitant as I'm not crazy about hippies , but this didn't glorify them at all. It showed how some of them were just in it for the sex and drugs, and some really believed in it, and this became obvious faced with the hardship of living in Alaska. Even so there were some characters I really despised (although I guess I was supposed to despise them). I did however like his style of writing a lot and I am curious to read more by him, with more appealing subject matter.

First Sentence: The morning was a fish in a net, glistening and wriggling at the dead black border of her consciousness, but she's never caught a fish in a net or on a hook either, so she couldn't say if or how or why.
Last Sentence: He was heading home, riding the runners, breathing easy, a man clothed in fur at the head of a team of dogs in a hard wild place, going home to his wife.