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I Ran Into Some Trouble

Written by: Peggy Caserta, Maggie Falcon
Narrated by: Carol Monda
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Peggy Caserta, founder of the famous Haight-Ashbury hippie boutique Mnasidika and lover and girlfriend of Janis Joplin, was a Louisiana homecoming queen turned airsick stewardess who eventually landed in 1960s San Francisco and set up shop. Her store was a hang-out for The Grateful Dead and Big Brother and the Holding Company; it was where Wes Wilson’s posters hung, where Bill Graham sold concert tickets, and where Owsley’s LSD was enjoyed.

Caserta’s world of psychedelic peace, love, LSD, and rock kaleidoscoped into bereavement, heroin addiction, prison, and desperation. She was hated, betrayed, and self-exiled, and after many, many years has recovered, returning home to the bayou to care for her mother with dementia.

Now Caserta is giving a new generation an inside look into a revolution—both countercultural and personal—in her new memoir. It’s the celebration of a transitional time in history and an attempt at redemption.

©2018 Peggy Caserta and Maggie Falcon (P)2022 Blackstone Publishing
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Very interesting life story told with vivid details, humour, passion and refreshingly honest.

I really liked the writing and pace of this memoir. Very candid details but never vulgar.

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GREAT!

Perhaps the most interesting autobiography I have ever listened to. Peggy has had such a long and interesting life, many highs and many lows. Loved learning the history of her shop and relationships in San Francisco in the 60’s. we can thank her for bell bottoms! She respectfully shared the stories of friends (many of them famous) without being sensational, and she took responsibility for her own actions. Her worse moments, addicted to heroin, and being incarcerated, taught me a lot. She came close to death a few times and bravely carried on. Inspirational!

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