The Red Squad: A Novel

By Esther Broner and E.M. Broner

Book Overview

A wonderfully comic novel about the interwoven lives of a group of 1960s grad students who, forty years later, learn that they were under FBI surveillance during their activist days. There's Anka, who enraged the right-thinking newspaper with her outspoken politics; Kevin, a priest in the process of formally leaving the church; "The Farmer," an unhappy father and husband; Noble, the gay poet; Ron, the black professor of Victorian studies; and the irrepressible Bernstein, who yearned to start again in the promised land of Israel. One became a spy, one became a fugitive. And when their long lost comrade resurfaces, his plight reunites them in a glorious, unexpected finale that collides past and present.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030745584X
• ISBN13: 9780307455840
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Anchor Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

Engaged by Life

This is a wonderfully textural account of how our past clings to us and gives us inspiration for understanding stories and their retelling. The sixties are still relevant not only because we haven't understood them, but because they are the writing and living instructions for our children as well.