ROBIN'S BLUE by Pam Alster is a dramatic look at life in the 70's! I gave it 3! $,$,$, on the rating scale we use here at Mousehead & Tales Synopsis: Robin’s Blue is a page-turning epic set against the disco 70’s through the Reagan-era 80’s, when divorce was the norm and casual sex and recreational drugs were ubiquitous. Robin Daniels, a runaway from a violent and emotionally desolate upper middle-class home, repeatedly navigates her world without guidance. After a failed marriage, she discounts love as an option and moves through a series of jobs and men. A futile attempt to live as a kept woman compels her to become a high-class call girl. She searches unsuccessfully through the resulting transient experiences and escalating drug use for the one lesson that will resolve her omnipresent question of purpose. Before AIDS and addiction became household words, Robin’s Blue speaks to a generation that basically raised itself. Robin’s journey takes her from suburban Philadelphia and Miami to the South of France, ultimately dropping her in New York City where she is obliged to make peace with the girl inside she left dormant at sixteen. Timeless, poignant and controversial, Robin’s Blue, explores: The indelible influence life in the 70’s and 80’s is having on today’s children. Did the consequences of life in the last century lead us to “over-correct” with the flood of 12-step programs, self-help books, abstinence, psychotherapy and a return to traditional social values? Does society have an obligation to try to prevent its youth from repeating their mistakes? Do teenagers today behave any differently with the benefit of knowledge about the dangers of addiction? Where does high-end prostitution exist today? Are we any more tolerant of it? Does guilt or victimization become a driving force behind one’s poor choices? The impact of an absent parent - through death or emotional detachment. “Robin emerges as a girl and woman who is her own best friend and worst enemy,” says Alster, “but I believe every woman can relate to her doubts, fears and insecurities as they follow Robin’s life journey to find a family where she belongs.”