“Dissident Gardens” by Jonathan Lethem
October 2, 2013
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“A tour de force, a brilliant, satiric journey through America’s dissident history.”— The Star Tribune
Quit fucking black cops or get booted from the Communist Party. There stood the ultimatum, the absurd sum total of the message conveyed to Rose Zimmer by the cabal gathered in her Sunnyside Gardens kitchen that evening. Late fall, 1955.
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