American Woman: A Novel

by Susan Choi

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asianamlitfans | Nov 25, 2011 |

It took a while for this one to really take hold of me, but once it did, I was quite hooked. Choi takes a relatively familiar story (Patty Hearst's abduction) and makes it really new and interesting. Doesn't judge the character's actions, it lets them do that themselves. A study of revolution. (

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Pulitzer Prize finalist (Fiction, 2004)

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Village Voice 25 Favorite Books (2003)

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0060542225, Paperback)

On the lam for an act of violence against the American government, 25-year-old Jenny Shimada agrees to care for three younger fugitives whom a shadowy figure from her former radical life has spirited out of California. One of them, the kidnapped granddaughter of a wealthy newspaper magnate in San Francisco, has become a national celebrity for embracing her captors' ideology and joining their revolutionary cell.

A thought-provoking meditation on themes of race, identity, and class, American Woman explores the psychology of the young radicals, the intensity of their isolated existence, and the paranoia and fear that undermine their ideals.

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"When twenty-five-year-old Jenny Shimada steps out of the Rhinecliff train station in New York's Hudson Valley, the last person she expects to see is Rob Frazer, a shadowy figure from her previous life. On the lam for an act of violence against the American government, Jenny agrees to take on the job of caring for three younger fugitives whom Frazer has spirited out of California. One of them, the granddaughter of a wealthy newspaper magnate in San Francisco, has become a national celebrity. Kidnapped by a homegrown revolutionary group, Pauline shocked America when she embraced her captors' ideology, denouncing family and class to enlist in their radical cell."--BOOK JACKET.… (more)