'' Loose Change '' ( Doubleday : Garden City ) is a non-fiction biography from 1977 by the American author Sara Davidson . The book follows the changing fortunes , lives , friendships , attitudes and characters of three women , beginning with their meeting as freshmen at the University of California , Berkeley in the 1960s . Sara ( Davidson ) , Susie , and Tasha experience the radical changes that went through American culture in that era , observing or being involved in student protests , drug use , the Civil Rights Movement , the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention , communes , free sex , and the popular music of the times . Over the course of the book , they become closer and then diverge in their viewpoints and propinquity
1968 Chicago Democratic Convention
1968 Democratic National Convention
Loose Change (book)