The Optomistic Decade by Heather Abel follows a teen activist at a back to the land Summer camp led by Caleb, the idealistic founder of the camp. The land was acquired from ranchers years ago who now want it back.
Full of ideas about the right way to live, devoting one's life to causes and knowing when its time to give up. This is also a coming of age story and a story of betrayal and discontent, of finding one's identity in troubling times and of becoming disenchanted with one's family.
This could have been a good book, but I couldn't wait for it to end; I didn't like the characters or the story and I found it all tiresome. One to skip in my opinion.
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