From the Summer of Love in San Francisco to the Woodstock festival in upstate New York, from campus protests to the Soho art scene, from a communal farm in Virginia to the mariachis of Guadalajara, Mexico, this epic novel charts the rise and fall of the counterculture, and what came after. Intimate, starkly realistic and ultimately hopeful, it is a War and Peace for the Woodstock generation. A great American novel - eight years in the making.