No Rules: A Memoir

Sharon Dukett

Jun 2020 · She Writes Press

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In this coming-of-age memoir, Sharon takes you with her on a nail-biting adventure through the early 1970s after leaving her sheltered home life at sixteen years old to join the hippies. Yearning for freedom, she lands in an adult world for which she is unprepared, and must learn quickly in order to survive.

As Sharon navigates the US and Canada—whether by hitchhiking, bicycle, or the back of a motorcycle—she experiences love and heartbreak, discovers whom she can and cannot trust, and awakens to the growing women’s liberation movement while living in a rural off-grid commune. In this colorful memoir, she reflects upon the changes that reshaped her during that decade, and how the ways in which she and her peers threw off the rules meant to keep women in their place has transformed and empowered the lives of girls and women today.

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Sharon Dukett is an award-winning author who was previously a computer programmer, project manager, and deputy director in state government. She and her husband live in central Connecticut in a house he built that overlooks the Connecticut River—the house where they raised their family. She loves reading memoir and fiction from a variety of backgrounds—to learn how others feel, experience life, and deal with their struggles.