communal living

"Starbird has spent the first sixteen years of her life on a commune in the woods of Washington State. When she gets her Calling to become a waitress at the farm's satellite restaurant in Seattle, it means leaving behind the only place she's ever known and entering the World Outside"--Provided by publisher.

A group of people living in an experimental community face the limitations of human nature.

Young and naive in her isolated community, Pearl finds her secure life complicated when a curious new boy moves into the community and compels her to question everything.

Evie Boyd, enticed by the freedom of the girls she sees at a park one day in Northern California, sets out to be accepted by the group, but her desperation reveals an unthinkable violence, altering the course of the girls' lives forever.

Living in an art commune that her father burns down before taking his own life, Ror moves to a homeless residence in 1984 Manhattan, where she is torn by the opinions of others about how she should define herself as an artist.

Best friends Max and Sadie do anything and everything together. When Sadie decides to escape life for a while one summer by going to Nebraska, Max tags along, knowing not what to do with herself without Sadie. There they meet the dangerous Dylan, with whom Max falls in love--but so does Sadie. This is the first time anything has come between the two, and the outcome is far from certain.

In 1970, fourteen-year-old Shoshanna, six-year-old Mara, and their mother escape from Sweet Earth Farm, a declining commune run by their tyranical and abusive father, but after finding peace and stability at Avery Elliot's farm, their mother's crippling depression returns.

In the 1960s, seventeen-year-old Melinda leaves an abusive home for San Francisco, meets the charismatic Henry, and follows him to his desert commune where sex and drugs are free, but soon his "family" becomes violent against rich and powerful people and she is compelled to join in.

Recreates the daily lives of Carson McCullers, W.H. Auden, Benjamin Briteen, Jane and Paul Bowles, and Gypsy Rose Lee during the year they spent living together in 1940s Brooklyn.

Thirteen-year-old Sara goes to live with a father she hardly knows in a New Hampshire barn which they share with a community of artists.