Thursday, September 12, 2013

The Book We're Talking About

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"Dissident Gardens" by Jonathan Lethem
Doubleday, US$27.95
Published on September 10, 2013

What is it about?
Three generations of failed activists (albeit often apathetic ones) are chronicled in Jonathan Lethem's first attempt at realism, set primarily in Queens, New York. Rose Zimmer's relationship with a black cop gets her booted from the Communist Party; Her lover's son, Cicero Lookins, is a lazy college professor; Rose's biological daughter, Miriam, runs away to a commune in Greenwich Village before joining a poet's revolution in Nicaragua.
Lethem fuses the personal and political lives of each character, weaving a compelling tapestry of failed revolutionaries. 

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