New fiction: overcoming hippie parents

The true test for the hippie kids of Flower Children is not their parents' divorce, nor is it dealing with the string of short-term boyfriends and girlfriends who woo their folks. It's junior high. Raised in a cartoonish house with four rooms stacked one atop another, a dirt floor in the kitchen and a swing dangling from the living room ceiling, the children in Maxine Swann's novel want nothing more than to fit in with their peers. "Flower Children Face Life Among Non-Hippies" Courier News (Illinois)