Introduction

For fans of Ann Patchett, Kristin Hannah, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Barbara Kingsolver, and Zadie Smith...

Miami Beach, Florida, 1981: A small windfall relocates Sienna and Siddhartha Jones and their charismatic and capricious father Jackson to a condemned mansion on the water. The siblings are forbidden to go to school and left to live off the land as Jackson uses their new home to create a communal cult. Living amidst the vagrant seekers who take up residence in Jackson's utopia, Sienna and Siddhartha are forced to raise themselves in a carefree, chaotic oasis. Sienna and Siddhartha strive to stick together and survive--through puberty and politics, bags of weed and burried treasure, first love and fickle friends, mahjongg and mosh pits, from Miami to New York to Morocco--to discover the enduring power of love in a family of lunatics...

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CHAPTER 1: Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes, 1979 

Jackson approached us on a wave of incense smoke undercut by a bittersweet gush of marijuana. He plopped down between us where we sat watching “Captain Kangaroo” on the wicker sectional left by some hopeful woman who wasn’t our mother, but who might have intended to stay.  ... view entire excerpt...

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