Drop City

It is 1970, and a down-at-the-heels California commune devoted to peace, free love, and the simple life has decided to relocate to the last frontier—the unforgiving landscape of interior Alaska—in the ultimate expression of going back to the land. Armed with the spirit of adventure and naïve optimism, the inhabitants of Drop City” arrive in the wilderness of Alaska only to find their utopia already populated by other young homesteaders. When the two communities collide, unexpected friendships and dangerous enmities are born as everyone struggles with the bare essentials of life: love, nourishment, and a roof over one’s head. Rich, allusive, and unsentimental, T.C. Boyle’s ninth novel is a tour de force infused with the lyricism and take-no-prisoners storytelling for which he is justly famous.

T.C. Boyle is the author of six short-story collections and nine novels, including The Tortilla Curtain (soon to be a major motion picture), The Road to Wellville, and World-'s End (winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award). In 1999 he was the recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. His stories regularly appear in the New Yorker, GQ, Esquire, and Playboy.