Book Details
- Paperback: 314 pages
- Publisher: She Writes Press (October 13, 2015)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 163152822X
- ISBN-13: 978-1631528224
Genre: Memoir
About the book: From the outside, Baldwin’s family projected an ideal image—but challenges hid just beneath the surface. Growing up on the Southern California coast, her childhood was privileged, but unstable; devastated by her parents’ crumbling marriage and sister’s suicide. Later, Baldwin married young in Palm Springs, and experiencedthe psychedelic sixties in San Francisco. But ultimately, it was the death of her parents that led her to Mexico. After a pilgrimage to Morocco Baldwin was prompted to reflect on the great loves and losses she survived and the ways in which alcoholism, suicide, sickness and mortality have shaped her worldview as an adult.
About Terry: Terry Cameron Baldwin is originally from California, where she received a BA in Psychology and a BFA in Painting and Printmaking from Sierra Nevada College in Lake Tahoe. She loves to travel for inspiration, to return to record her impressions in a variety of media. She has worked as a stained glass artisan, paper artist, painter, printmaker, jewelry maker, and calligrapher. She moved to San Miguel de Allende in 2006 from Santa Fe, New Mexico.
“Terry Cameron Baldwin has written the definitive memoir on coming of age in 1960s Southern California."—Stephen M. Joseph, author of Children in Fear and Meditations, and co-author of the Tony-nominated Broadway musical, The Me Nobody Knows
“This is a wonderful read from a gifted writer."—Richard Daniel, book editor for the Beverly Hills Post
“‘If you remember the sixties, you weren’t there,’ goes the joke. Terry Cameron Baldwin proves this canard radiantly wrong. We haven’t heard nearly enough from women about that era, a time when Baldwin says she was the freest she’s ever been."—Lauren Coodley, author of Upton Sinclair California Socialist, Celebrity Intellectual, California: a Multicultural Documentary History, and Napa: the Transformation of an American Town
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