Something Red (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780547549422)

In Washington, D.C., life inside the Goldstein home is as tumultuous as the swiftly changing times. In 1979, the Cold War is waning and the age of protest has come and gone, leaving a once radical family to face a new set of challenges. Something Red is a masterly novel that unfurls with suspense, humor, and insight.Dennis, whose government job often takes him to Moscow, struggles both to succeed in a career he doesn't quite believe in and to live up to his father's leftist legacy. Sharon, a caterer for the Washington elite, joins a cultlike group in search of the fulfillment she once felt. Happy-go-lucky Benjamin is heading off to college, there to experience an awakening of social conscience, and sixteen-year-old Vanessa finds a cure for alienation in D.C.'s hardcore music scene. As each of them follows separate trajectories of personal protest and compromise along the edge of a new decade, radical traditions long dormant in their family awaken once again, with shocking, far-reaching results.A poignant story of husbands and wives, parents and children, activists and spies,

Author: Jennifer Gilmore
ISBN-10: 0547549423
ISBN-13: 9780547549422
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Language: English
Published: 03/10/2011
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.41w x 0.81d

Review Citation(s):
People Weekly 04/11/2011 pg. 57