Two sisters grow up against a family background of communes. Lex embraces the material; Sandi, the spiritual. Sandi grows up to lead her own commune. When she is twenty-eight, her whole group dies in what appears to be a mass suicide. Lex is left to remember her younger sister’s rise to infamy, and to try to understand what really happened.
The novel is split between the 1980s, when the two girls grew up together in San Diego, and 1997, during the immediate aftermath of the death. The girls’ eccentric grandmother grew up in Lomaland, an early twentieth century Theosophical commune. She tries to instill a sense of spiritual purpose in the girls. Sandi is a young seeker with loads of promise. At a psychic fair, mystics converge upon her, awed by the never-before-seen color of her aura. Meanwhile, Lex’s aura is puce. Lex is more interested in her liaisons with a series of outcasts and punk rockers. After one disastrous event, she succumbs to the spiritual life and becomes her sister’s first follower. But her spirituality is found wanting. She is forced to leave the commune.
Lex moves to San Francisco, where she ekes out a living as a bass player. After the demise of Sandi’s cult, a very attractive tell-all biographer approaches Lex. Grieving, angry, confused, and wanting for once to be the star, Lex agrees to sell the exclusive story of her sister for twenty thousand dollars. By addressing her buried demons, she finally begins to unite her damaged spiritual and physical selves, and to solve the mystery of the mass suicide.
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