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One Good Tree: One Woman's Journey through the Turbulent Sixties, Vietnam and the Counter Culture

by Irene Isobel Carver 

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This powerful story of resilience traces the author's life through the turbulent decade of the 1960s. Her marriage is shaken by the Vietnam War, the trauma of her young soldier/husband's PTSD, and his subsequent heroin addiction. Irene Carver must navigate jobs, relationships and motherhood during a time of outrage and hope. The author has created a vivid time capsule into the 60s.The revolutionary spirit that helped stop the Vietnam War is palpable: the unforgettable music, the new ideas and thinking promoted by books such as Be Here Now, The Greening of America, Autobiography of a Yogi, and the determination of a new generation to change the world. Every person who lived through the 60s will recognize pieces of their own lives in this gripping narrative.ONE GOOD TREE is deeply rooted in family and the human quest for peace, and is detailed with an honesty and authenticity that will linger in the hearts and minds of the reader.… (more)
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This powerful story of resilience traces the author's life through the turbulent decade of the 1960s. Her marriage is shaken by the Vietnam War, the trauma of her young soldier/husband's PTSD, and his subsequent heroin addiction. Irene Carver must navigate jobs, relationships and motherhood during a time of outrage and hope. The author has created a vivid time capsule into the 60s.The revolutionary spirit that helped stop the Vietnam War is palpable: the unforgettable music, the new ideas and thinking promoted by books such as Be Here Now, The Greening of America, Autobiography of a Yogi, and the determination of a new generation to change the world. Every person who lived through the 60s will recognize pieces of their own lives in this gripping narrative.ONE GOOD TREE is deeply rooted in family and the human quest for peace, and is detailed with an honesty and authenticity that will linger in the hearts and minds of the reader.

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