Group Living and Other Recipes

<b><p>“An affirmation and celebration of our deep and radical connections with the world and each other . . . Reading this book is like finding a friend.”—Ruth Ozeki</p></b><p><b>A spirited and timely exploration of group living that encourages readers to reconsider the meaning of family and home.</b></p><p>Lola Milholland grew up in the nineties, the child of iconoclastic hippies. Both her parents threw open their rambling house in Portland, Oregon, to long-term visitors and unusual guests in need of a place to stay. Years later, after college and after her parents’ separation, Milholland returned home. There, she joined her brother and his housemates—an eccentric group of stop-motion animators and accomplished cooks—in furthering the experiment of communal living into a new generation.</p><p><i>Group Living and Other Recipes </i>tells the story of the residents of the Holman House—of transcendent meals and ecstatic parties, of colorful characters coming together in moments of deep tenderness and inevitable irritation, of a shared life that is appealing, humorous, confounding, and, just maybe, utopian—with a wider exploration of group living as a way of life. From spending time at her aunt and uncle’s intentional community in Washington State to finding her footing in the kitchen as a student in Japan to mushroom hunting in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, Milholland offers an expansive and vibrant reevaluation of the structures at the very center of our lives.</p><p>Thoughtful, quirky, candid, and wise, <i>Group Living and Other Recipes</i> introduces a gifted memoirist and thinker, making a convincing case that “<i>now</i> is always the right time to reimagine home and family.”</p>