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Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War
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Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War Hardcover - 2011

by Unferth, Deb Olin


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Rising literary star Deb Olin Unferth offers a new twist on the coming-of-age memoir in this utterly unique and captivating story of the year she ran away from college with her Christian boyfriend and followed him to Nicaragua to join the Sandinistas.

Despite their earnest commitment to a myriad of revolutionary causes and to each other, the couple find themselves unwanted, unhelpful, and unprepared as they bop around Central America, looking for "revolution jobs." The year is 1987, a turning point in the Cold War. The East-West balance has begun to tip, although the world doesn't know it yet, especially not Unferth and her fiance (he proposes on a roadside in El Salvador). The months wear on and cracks begin to form in their relationship: they get fired, they get sick, they run out of money, they grow disillusioned with the revolution and each other. But years later the trip remains fixed in her mind and she finally goes back to Nicaragua to try to make sense of it all. Unferth's heartbreaking and hilarious memoir perfectly captures the youthful search for meaning, and is an absorbing rumination on what happens to a country and its people after the revolution is over.

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  • Title Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War
  • Author Unferth, Deb Olin
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 208
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Henry Holt and Co., U.S.A.
  • Date 2011-02
  • ISBN 9780805093230

About the author

Deb Olin Unferth is the author of the story collection "Minor Robberies" and the novel "Vacation," winner of the 2009 Cabell First Novelist Award and a "New York Times Book Review" Critics' Choice. Her work has been featured in "Harper's Magazine," "McSweeney's," "The Believer," and the "Boston Review." She has received two Pushcart Prizes and a 2009 Creative Capital grant for Innovative Literature. She teaches at Wesleyan University and currently lives in New York.

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