Cool's Ridge

When twenty-five-year-old Liz Stillwell arrives at Cool's Ridge, a communal farm in the Kittatinny Mountains of rural northwest New Jersey, she believes she has found a safe and peaceful place. But despite the country setting, an air of tension that is political, as well as sexual, pervades the farm. It is June of 1972, there's a war in Vietnam and all of the group members are anti-war activists. A memoir-like accounting of love, betrayal, and revenge, But When She Was Bad tells of the star-crossed meeting of a man and a woman, their marriage and divorce, and their deadly struggle for custody of a child