
Dune Child is Ella Thorp Ellis' compelling memoir of growing up during the Great Depression in a bohemian collective beach community in central California. . Falling on hard times, her father, an agent for silent movie stars, and her mother, a beautiful, creative woman, migrated...

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. California Studies. DUNE CHILD will be of interest to historians (California history) and child therapists. It tells the story of an artistic and bohemian community that existed in the dunes near San Luis Obispo during the Depression. John Steinbeck...