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Read It Forward Sweepstakes for a chance to win a copy of
Dissident Gardens written by Jonathan Lethem. Just fill out your information and then you will be entered. Winners will be announced on July 3rd.
At the center of Jonathan Lethem’s superb new novel stand two
extraordinary women. Rose Zimmer, the aptly nicknamed Red Queen of
Sunnyside, Queens, is an unreconstructed Communist and mercurial tyrant
who terrorizes her neighborhood and her family with the ferocity of her
personality and the absolutism of her beliefs. Her brilliant and willful
daughter, Miriam, is equally passionate in her activism, but flees
Rose’s suffocating influence and embraces the Age of Aquarius
counterculture of Greenwich Village.
Both women cast spells that entrance or enchain the men in their
lives: Rose’s aristocratic German Jewish husband, Albert; her nephew,
the feckless chess hustler Lenny Angrush; Cicero Lookins, the brilliant
son of her black cop lover; Miriam’s (slightly fraudulent) Irish
folksinging husband, Tommy Gogan; their bewildered son, Sergius. These
flawed, idealistic people all struggle to follow their own utopian
dreams in an America where radicalism is viewed with bemusement,
hostility, or indifference.
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