Rent The Darling

Synopsis

Russell Banks's life of Hannah Musgrave, a fictional Weather Underground member takes her, ultimately, to Africa, where she marries a Liberian official, gives birth to three sons, and works with chimpanzees. After a series of tumultuous events in the wake of the unseating of the country's president, Hannah finds herself again in America--the country she once plotted to overthrow. As in CLOUDSPLITTER, his novel about the revolutionary John Brown, Banks delves into American history to bring his protagonist, and an entire era, to life. A New York Times Notable Book for 2004.

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