Washoe County Library System

An 18-year-old woman reeling from her mother’s death arrives at a proto-commune of poets, painters and musicians on the Greek island of Hydra where she has her ideas about art, relationships and her own innocence tested. "In this novel based on real events and people, a young woman arrives on the Greek island of Hydra in 1960 and falls in with a bohemian group of poets, painters, and musicians, including the young Leonard Cohen and his beloved...