Eden

Eden in colorful words and frameless pictures An amazing story of peace and love in Haight-Ashbury San Francisco hippy time. All transposed in agonies of lost love, tangled race relations and drug-induced psychosis. The author’s incredible use of words, the pictures she painted with colors of time and loss and hate, and finally love. This is a thinking person’s book. A story to be absorbed and tumbled through like a bowl of beach glass on a windowsill.

This was a difficult story to stick with. It has some lovely moments, but it’s also very disjointed and chaotic. Some of that is deliberate via the plot, but much of the movement seems unnecessary; extraneous even.

EDEN is a haunting and quietly powerful story that captures the emotional turmoil of the late 1960s with striking intimacy.Set against the backdrop of San Francisco’s flower-child era and the shadow of the Vietnam War, the novel follows Lani, an eighteen-year-old caught between youthful idealism and a reality shaped by violence, loss, and racial injustice. Her dream—of her boyfriend Harv dying in Vietnam, replaced in death by a Black man she has never met—sets the story on an unsettling and deep