2. the Wild Girls

the Wild Girls by Pat Murphy

This is a lovely coming of age book - the sort of story that makes you smile and slightly sad, before wishing you could give this book to a much younger you.  The protaganist, a girl named Joan or sometimes Newt, moves across country to California in the seventies and finds her voice in the woods with Fox and by becoming a writer.  I'll pass this book on.  It's the kind of book that ought to be shared among friends.