Like many of those she writes about, Judith Moore is a
recent migrant, a housewife with two grown daughters
who six years ago undid the moorings of her middle-class
life and took to the road heading west, drawn to that
"place where you could be what you said you were"---
California.
The smoke of mesquite barbecues, she discovers in
Berkeley, has replaced the odor of tear gas. The circle
skirts and brocade sheath dresses, the strapless tulle
gowns she wore in high school, hang in vintage clothing
stores. "Blowin In The Wind" plays in elevators. And yet
that special quality of the Coast prevails, ever attracting
new migrants. "Beginnings were everywhere," she writes,
"you didn t need a past."
Judith Moore s subjects are not the shakers and moguls of
La La Land. Steinbeck s California is what she reports on,
rendering it as it is now, in the 80s, with a rare daring and
panache. Three nuns who live and work in a circus, an
undertaker reminiscing about his trade,hairstylists who
see their vocation as a cross between Jungian therapy and
live theater, a pimp with an attache case, teenage beach
Madonnas, a female cop who remembers California in the
20s, a thief turned confidant of street gang members, a
notorious radical with a passion for stuffed toy animals, a
conventional young woman who makes her own whips
and worries about her mother s reaction to her "play
room."
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