Chil­dren of the Canyon takes place in the years 1969 – 1981. Inspired by the author’s encoun­ters with sev­er­al peo­ple with whom he had attend­ed a very pro­gres­sive kinder­garten in the ear­ly 1970s, each chap­ter is a self-con­tained short sto­ry, set in a dif­fer­ent year, that depicts the life of a Jew­ish boy com­ing of age in L.A.‘s fabled Lau­rel Canyon neigh­bor­hood as the coun­ter­cul­ture is com­ing to an end: the post-Man­son, pre-Won­der­land decade seen through the eyes of a child, and from the Jew­ish per­spec­tive to boot.