{"product_id":"9780253005557","title":"The Glimpse Traveler","description":"\u003cb\u003eA stunning, poetic memoir “that will transport readers to a time when a nation’s youth searched for meaning against the backdrop of the Vietnam War” (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e When she joins a pair of hitchhikers on a trip to California, a young Midwestern woman embarks on a journey of memory, beauty, and realization. This true story, set in 1971, recounts a fateful, nine-day trip into the American counterculture that begins on a whim and quickly becomes a mission to unravel a tragic mystery.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The narrator’s path leads her to Berkeley, San Francisco, Mill Valley, Big Sur, and finally to an abandoned resort motel that has become a down-on-its-luck commune in the desert of southern Colorado. \u003ci\u003eThe Glimpse Traveler\u003c\/i\u003e describes with wry humor and deep feeling what it was like to witness a peculiar and impossibly rich time.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “A perceptive, engaging, intimate chronicle of the early 1970s, the road-weary hippie hitchhikers, the anti-war sentiment, the dope-induced haze. Boruch . . . captures this very specific, significant time and place with exquisite clarity and lyric detail and description.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003eDinty Moore, author of\u003ci\u003e Between Panic and Desire\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47080680325360,"sku":"9780253005557","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780253005557_p0.jpg?v=1769913997","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780253005557","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}