Book launch: ‘Out of Sight! Memoir of a San Francisco Hippie’ by Barbara Rahder

What was it like to be in the midst of the counterculture movement as a white teen girl with a critical eye?
Out of Sight! is former FES dean Barbara Sanford Rahder’s memoir, a coming-of-age story set in the iconic time and place of 1960s San Francisco.
Out of Sight! weaves one young woman’s experience during a transformative time with unflinching observations on gender, race and power.
Sad, funny, painful and always very real, Rahder’s story brings a new, critical perspective to the hippie era.
And throughout it all ripples an undercurrent of disturbing family tensions.

Things that are hidden “out of sight” are not easily confronted, but secrets have a way of surfacing.

“This era and its concerns have been well covered, particularly in the memoir genre, but Rahder has a better claim to it than most.
Always within a few blocks of the beating heart of the scene, she eschews self-mythologizing in favour of thoughtful vignettes
and succeeds in turning many hippie clichés back into fresh moments of truth.” – Kirkus Review

EVERYONE WELCOME!