Kerri Maher on Summer of Love: Sisterhood, Sobriety, and the 1967 Bay Area

About this episode

In this episode of History Through Fiction: The Podcast , Colin Mustful speaks with Kerri Maher, author of Summer of Love , about the myths and realities of the 1967 Bay Area counterculture. Through the lens of family, art, addiction, and reinvention, this conversation invites listeners to look beyond flower-crown nostalgia and into the emotional complexity of a turbulent era. Together, they explore Maher’s dual-timeline novel, which follows two sisters pulled in different directions by the cultural upheavals of the late 1960s and a later-generation storyline shaped by questions of sobriety, memory, and healing. The discussion moves from Berkeley and San Francisco to Napa wine country,…