She Came in Lit
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Publisher Description
SHE CAME IN LIT is blue jeans, painted Volkswagens and rock ‘n roll historical fiction. A socio-political coming of age story, set mostly in Seattle and California, just at the onset of the second wave of the Women’s Movement. Young women will find themselves, as will Boomers, music lovers, spiritual seekers, Hippies who want to remember but cannot, political activists, and young ones who hunger for a time when an individual felt potent community, when we believed we could change the world.
It was late summer 1966 when 17 year old Shoshannah Leibofsky fell beyond herself. With her first LSD trip she is steeply delivered from her strait-laced life, her family and friends, uninvestigated beliefs, and secretarial job at Boeing. She leaves Seattle for the streets of Haight-Ashbury, finds her way into the underground anti-war nation where conscience and a heady belief she can help make a difference, mixes with drugs, demonstrations, arrests, and Sky River Rock festivals. She finds Sisters, and Feminism, and teachers, loses her faith, and moves in with a rock ‘n roll cult band.
Shoshy longs to be remarkable, magical, and in a time when girls had not moved much beyond wife-mother-sister-daughter-whore and running the mimeograph machine for the underground revolution, she longs for an original life, aches to be more than just another pair of t**s, dreams of someone who understands the way to her heart is though her head and not just between her legs, someone big enough she can run full speed the rest of her days and never come to the end.
Is it better to let sleeping dogs lie? Maybe. For once you’ve seen the light, once awake you have reference, and if you go back to sleep, how much greater the darkness. Asleep or awake there is a price to pay, for you can remain asleep, follow the rules and have a fine life, though it will not be an original one. Or you can open your eyes, by choice or not, for consciousness, being lit is the result of awakening, of disturbed reflection, and then your choices begin.
Note: The ebook version includes 15 sound tracks relevant to the story.
Customer Reviews
“She Came In Lit” powerful, full of light and life
Shoshannah Leibofsky, born into a perfectly proper “golden ghetto,” narrates an inspiring and legendary 60’s documentary like no other.
She grew up in the 50’s, embarked on a Boeing office career and entered a Seafair Queen competition, both rife with misogyny. She designed, sewed and sold dresses in Seattle, then custom jewelry on the streets of San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury. Along the way, she became a student and friend of Dr. Ida Rose Barber, opening her mind. Wide. Very wide.
Under FBI surveillance, Shoshannah staged Seattle Vietnam war protests; she secured the first ever Sky River commune concert predating Woodstock; and then fled to Santa Cruz, California to find true love after FBI agents - “pigs” wearing Nixon masks - took money and drugs in a lights-and-sirens Seattle raid and rape of her friends.
Brutally honest, she wraps non-fiction stories in crisp 20/20 visionary poetic prose that clearly takes readers every step of the way. Strong, powerful, intelligent and much wiser, she generously shares nourishing, far-reaching lessons and indictments about self-respect, self-knowledge, self-responsibility, personal honor, consciousness, friendships, relationships, drugs, abuse, sex, religion, the real Jesus, bibles, love, archetypes, myths, equality, liberation and living an original life in a corrupted world. In the process, she brings the amazing Dr. Ida Rose Barber to life, revealing heretofore unpublished audited research that challenges the mind and unveils the universe, shattering centuries-old blockades and rekindling light on personal paths through the eye of the needle.