Eat the Document by Dana Spiotta
finished 12/28 ......... contemp fict.........
rating 7
Well I'd looked forward to this book but it was
ultimately disappointing. I guess I wanted more of what it had been like for
the protagonist, Mary/Freya/Caroline/Louise, than for her son Jason. Anyway,
A woman flees her way from the scene of a felony done in the name of radical revolution - (think Weather Underground). Her boyfriend flees his way. Woman ends up 35 years later as a widowed mother of an 18 year old tech and musically inclined boy. The boy realizes that something is not right with his mother's stories of her past and one day some information crosses his path.
It's a good book, I guess - it had me researching Bernadette Dorne and Mark Rudd, the Underground/Prairie Fire and so on. But there's more musical information and allusions here than I've read since Jonathan Letham's The Fortress of Solitude.
A woman flees her way from the scene of a felony done in the name of radical revolution - (think Weather Underground). Her boyfriend flees his way. Woman ends up 35 years later as a widowed mother of an 18 year old tech and musically inclined boy. The boy realizes that something is not right with his mother's stories of her past and one day some information crosses his path.
It's a good book, I guess - it had me researching Bernadette Dorne and Mark Rudd, the Underground/Prairie Fire and so on. But there's more musical information and allusions here than I've read since Jonathan Letham's The Fortress of Solitude.
Posted: Sun - December 28, 2008 at 12:24 PM
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