It is 1976. So that Mary, who has become a midwife, may help Helen deliver her baby, Helen and Capo travel to the rural Arkansas Ozarks where Mary, Paul, Frank, and Barbara, their other four ex-hippie friends, are homesteading thirty acres. To the central themes of the first book of this trilogy--namely interpersonal relationships, freedom and duty, the search for truth and self, and political action--are added and developed the themes of theology,...