A Marvelous Little Anarchy
An edited excerpt from my debut book, Group Living and Other Recipes, published by Amherst Magazine in July 2024. Illustration by Jam Dong.
The Great Recession hit soon after Lola Milholland ’07 graduated. Like so many of her generation, she found herself moving back to her childhood home to live with friends and family. This summer, she serves up Group Living and Other Recipes: A Memoir. Here’s a taste of one chapter... which starts at Amherst’s own communal-cooking house.
The communal dorm where I lived my sophomore and senior years at Amherst College felt pseudo-Greek in its grandiosity, at least from the outside. Inside, it was both sloppy and bare, filled with disintegrating furniture and body aroma. It was called the Zü, a joke mostly on us, the animals who lived inside.
