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Chrysanthemum is a beautiful story about overcoming being different, and learning to love who you are. Kevin Henkes is a genius in my opinion, and I loved this book! When Chrysanthemum was little she absolutely loved her name. However, when she gets to school she begins to dislike it because she gets made fun of by other kids... that is until she meets one special teacher.
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Don't Follow Me, I'm Lost: A Memoir of Hampshire College in the Twilight of the '80s (Hardcover)
Description
A strange and salacious memoir of life at the ultimate hippie college during the height of Reaganomics
Opening its doors in 1970, Hampshire College was once known as a land of eternal partying, where countercultures thrived and jocks were nowhere to be found. Self- proclaimed nerd Richard Rushfield knew this progressive Massachusetts campus was the place for him, offering a chance to shed his squeaky-clean California upbringing. He was part of the freshman class of 1986, hiding out from Reagan-era excess in a liberal haven where overachievement and preppy clothes were banned.
By turns hilarious, ironic, and steeped in history, Don't Follow Me, I'm Lost takes readers to a campus populated by Deadheads, club kids, poets, and insomniac filmmakers, at a time when America saw the rise of punk and grunge alongside neo-conservatism, earnest calls for political correctness, and Take Back the Night vigils. Shunned by all of the school's reigning subcultures, Rushfield joins the most hated clique on campus, the Supreme Dicks, navigates a dating scene where to express interest in anything is social suicide, and mostly avoids class where hippie professors blather on about post-structuralism. Culminating in a mad clash of slackers and yuppies, Don't Follow Me, I'm Lost captures a watershed moment for American youth in one hilarious and unforgettable trip.
About the Author
Journalist Richard Rushfield is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and the author of On Spec: A Novel of Young Hollywood. His writing has also appeared in many other publications, including The New York Times, Variety, and LA Weekly.
Praise for Don't Follow Me, I'm Lost: A Memoir of Hampshire College in the Twilight of the '80s…
"Had Dorothy Parker been a teenage boy in the Eighties, she'd have been Richard Rushfield, whose bon mots fly from a roundtable set in dank stairwell parties around kegs of flat beer." -Stacey Grenrock Woods, author of I, California
"Richard Rushfield has provided a worm's eye view of one of America's kookiest education experiments: Hampshire College. It was here that the idealism of the Sixties curdled into the nihilism of the Eighties. And Don't Follow Me, I'm Lost isn't merely about a troubled liberal arts school, but an entire generation's nervous breakdown. It is by turns rueful, angry, touching and, above all, very, very funny." - Toby Young, author of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People
"Richard Rushfield was a dick in college, just ask him. DFMIL is a hilarious recanting of a unique, and often absurd higher education experience. Rushfield is a completely lovable ne'er-do-well bumbling through a do it yourself education. Required reading for anyone who went to college, lives near a college or owns a hacky sack.." --Greg Behrendt, Comedian, Sex and the City writer and author of He's Just Not That Into You
Richard Rushfield has written a smart, funny, fish-out-of-water love letter to the 80's. Vivid settings plus memorable characters and wry humor equals one totally awesome memoir. -Moon Zappa
"I can't imagine a more unique or uproarious depiction of the post- Reagan, pre-grunge era." - Anna David, author of Bought, host of "Attack of the Show!"