I Ran into Some Trouble
- Author Peggy Caserta, Maggie Falcon
- Narrator Carol Monda
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date 16 August 2022
- Run Time 11 hours and 27 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Biography and non-fiction prose, Biography: general, Biography: historical, political and military, Gender studies: women and girls, History, History of the Americas, LGBTQ+ / Gay and Lesbian Studies, Memoirs, Society and Social Sciences.
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What to expect
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.
Critics Review
“A riveting cautionary tale of the wild ride and dark side of the counterculture.”
“[It’s] the whole of Caserta’s life, each era as carefully considered and vividly drawn as the headiest days of Joplin, the Grateful Dead, and Mnasidika…all of it chronicled in her memoir in a wry, funny voice.”
“This memoir isn’t about apologies. Rather, Caserta focuses on telling her story her way and owning it. The experience is less salacious and infinitely more astonishing in the scope of what she did, what was done to her, and what she got away with.”
“An unforgettable portrait of genius, grit, and demons…a run into ’60s music history, delicious rock ’n roll dish, sizzling Janis Joplin anecdotes and just a whole lot of fun.”
“[Caserta] becomes Janis Joplin’s lover, lives the high life, and then crashes and burns through decades before righting herself. An intense lap around the life track touching all the possibilities.”
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