Lola Milholland for GROUP LIVING AND OTHER RECIPES - a Boswell event

Boswell Book Company presents an evening with Lola Milholland, author of Group Living and Other Recipes.

Lola Milholland grew up in the nineties, the child of iconoclastic hippies. Both her parents threw open their rambling house 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 furthering 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. From spending time at her aunt and uncle’s intentional community in Washington State to finding her footing in the kitchen as a student in Japan to mushroom hunting in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, Milholland offers an expansive and vibrant reevaluation of the structures at the very center of our lives.

From Ruth Ozeki, author ofThe Book of Form and Emptiness: “Reading this book is like finding a friend. With intelligence and humor, Lola Milholland invites us to join her in a timely (and delicious!) interrogation of the ethics of food, housing, family, land, and self. As an affirmation and celebration of our deep and radical connections with the world and each other, her book gives me hope.”

Lola Milholland is a food-business owner and writer. A former editor for Edible Portland magazine, she runs Umi Organic, a noodle company with a commitment to providing nutritious public school lunch.

Click here to order your copy of Group Living and Other Recipes from Boswell. Signed copies and personalization available on pre-orders. Please note that signed copies will not be shipped until after the event.