By Chris Urquhart,Micah White,Kitra Cahana
"An illuminating and noteworthy twenty-first-century trip. From this perspective, Burning guy seems to be bourgeois." —Ted Conover, writer of Newjack and The Routes of Man
At age twenty-two, author Chris Urquhart left a lifetime of middle-class convenience to rfile the lives of those younger nomads for characteristic. Captivated, she them for 3 extra years. In sincere prose interspersed with photos portraying the dirty fantastic thing about nomadic existence, Dirty Kids tells the tale of ways Urquhart lived along runaways, crust punks, and dropouts, hippies, Deadheads, and Rainbows in an try and belong of their world.
But the line took its toll, and alongside the way in which, Urquhart discovered anguish along the freedom—mental future health matters, substance abuse, and fears of violence marred her trip. regardless of all that, the nice and cozy, welcoming family members of tourists and their extensively substitute tradition of sharing, generosity, and non-capitalistic collaboration eternally replaced her outlook on existence and her figuring out of freedom.
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