Whats a Good Biographical Book About Someones Teenage Years During the 60s-70s?

Question by Keller: Whats a good biographical book about someones teenage years during the 60s-70s?
I want to read a book that is set in the 1960s-70s and is about a real life girl that is in her teenage years….so if you know something like that, please tell me!
If you have read the book “Cherry” by Mary Carr….anything like that!

Best answer:

Answer by Pip
I have not read Cherry, but I’m With the Band by Pamela Des Barres is the memoirs of a teenage groupie during the 1960s.

Answer by gemma the brave
The Beatrice Sparks books like Go Ask Alice. Here is a plot line:
The novel, or diary, deals with the downfall of a fifteen-year-old American girl and her journals over the course of two years and a few days.

At the beginning of the book, “Alice” is a typical, insecure, middle-class teenager preoccupied with boys, diets, and popularity. Her fortunes take a sharp turn for the worse when her family moves to new town and she finds herself less popular and more isolated than ever before. Unhappy in the new town, she is overjoyed to be allowed to return to the old town to spend the summer with her grandparents. During this stay she is invited to a party by an old acquaintance; there she unwittingly ingests LSD that had been added to random bottles of Coca-Cola and distributed to the party guests as a game. The other guests had mistakenly assumed Alice was aware of what the “game” entailed. After this first unwitting, but pleasurable, experience, she seeks drugs deliberately, and rapidly proceeds to marijuana, amphetamines, and casual sex. She describes her drug experiences intricately; the more extreme the supposed diarist’s drug experience, the more sophisticated and descriptive her writing becomes.

A pregnancy scare and the return to her new town encourage her to turn away from drugs; however she soon willingly falls in with the drug crowd where finally she finds acceptance. She starts dating a drug dealer and sells drugs to grade-schoolers for him. After realizing he was using her (and even homosexual), she turns him in to the police and runs away from home with her friend Chris, moving to San Francisco. She opens a boutique with Chris, however she misses her family. After being given heroin and then being raped by Chris’s boss, Shelia, and Shelia’s boyfriend, she and Chris return home.

She finds herself ostracized by the community and has difficulty keeping her resolve to avoid drugs. She soon weakens and, while high, runs away again. She spends time living on the streets, a period during which her diary is not dated and entries were purportedly recorded on scraps of paper or paper napkins. She finds herself having sexual relations with strangers and loses track of everything, but her fear for her family finally gives her enough courage to ask a priest to help her return home.

When she returns home she vows to stay completely off drugs, and succeeds, even without the support of Chris who has now moved away. However, she is again ostracized by her former friends who continue to label her a police informant, and is ignored by the “square” kids. One day while she is babysitting she is drugged without her knowledge – someone leaves out peanuts at the house where she is sitting but they have secretly been drugged. She has a violent, bad trip, during which a neighbor locks her in the closet, where she badly injures herself trying to claw her way out, and is committed to a psychiatric hospital. After being released she returns home, is finally happy and over her drug addiction. She starts a new romance with a student, Joel, at her father’s university. She gets her life back on track and finally makes the decision to stop keeping a diary.

An editorial note informs readers that three weeks after the last entry the diarist died of an overdose. The book’s epilogue ponders if it had been an accidental or premeditated overdose, before concluding that it was just one of thousands of drug deaths that year.

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