For readers of Braiding Sweetgrass and How to Do Nothing-books that invite us to imagine better ways to live (and live with each other)-comes a spirited and charming exploration of group living from a child of the counterculture that encourages us to redefine the meaning of home and family.Lola Milholland grew up in the nineties, the child of iconoclastic hippies. Her mom-energetic and intense at work and at play, whether at her job marketing for an agricultural co-op or paddling down a river, fat spliff in hand-had spent her life revolting against the strictures of her American and Filipino upbringing. Her dad, a child of the eastern Oregon desert, was a jovial documentary filmmaker and historian who loved to collect ephemera. Both threw open the doors of the Holman House, their rambling home in Portland, Oregon, to long-term visitors and unusual guests in need of a place to stay. Years later, after college and after her parents' separation, Milholland returned home. There, she joined her brother and his housemates-an eccentric group of stop-motion animators and accomplished cooks-in choosing to further the experiment of communal living into a new generation.Group Living and Other Recipes tells the story of the residents of the Holman House-of transcendent meals and ecstatic parties, of colorful characters coming together in moments of deep tenderness and inevitable irritation, of a shared life that is appealing, humorous, confounding, and, just maybe, utopian-with a wider exploration of group living as a way of life.Thoughtful, quirky, candid, and wise, Group Living and Other Recipes provides a convincing case that “now is always the right time to reimagine home and family”-and introduces a gifted memoirist and food writer in the tradition of Laurie Colwin, Ruth Reichl, and M.F.K. Fisher.Includes a PDF of all recipes in the text.