clear cut press - shoot the buffalo (a novel) by matt
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The summer Aldous Bohm turns nine, his parents move to the woods near Snoqualmie, Washington, "to reinvent the American family." The Bohm's are working class hippies in post-Vietnam America. Their makeshift paradise takes shape in a haze of pot smoke and good intentions and ultimately births a vortex of personal insecurity and idealism that takes the family deeper into the woods and destroys them. Aldous oversees these tragedies, recalled a decade later, after he has left Snoqualmie to join the military in the build up to the Gulf War.
"Briggs has captured the America that neither progressives nor family-value advocates want to think about, where bohemianism has degenerated into dangerous dropping out."
Ann Powers, The New York Times Book Review
