Eat the Document By Spiotta Dana

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An ambitious and powerful story about idealism passion and sacrifice Eat the Document shifts between the underground movement of the 1970s and the echoes and consequences of that movement in the1990s A National Book Award finalist Eat the Document is a riveting portrait of two eras and one of the most provocative and compelling novels of recent years In the 1970s Bobby Desoto and Mary Whittaker passionate idealistic and in love design a series of radical protests against the Vietnam War When one action goes wrong the course of their lives is forever changed The two must erase their past forge new identities and never see each other again Now it is the 1990s Mary lives in the suburbs with her fifteen year old son who spends hours immersed in the music of his mother s generation and she has no idea whether Bobby is alive or dead An ambitious and powerful story about idealism passion and sacrifice Eat the Documentshifts between the underground movement of the 1970s and the echoes and consequences of that movement in the1990s It is a riveting portrait of two eras and one of the most provocative and compelling novels of recent years