In the little upstate New York town of Union Grove, springtime is a most difficult season, known as "the six weeks want," when fresh food is scarce and winter stores have dwindled. Young Daniel Earle returns from his haunting travels around what is left of the United States intent on resurrecting the town newspaper. He is also recruited by the town trustees to help revive the Hudson River trade route shut down peevishly by the local grandee, planter Stephen Bullock. Meanwhile, a menacing gang of Social Justice Warriors styling themselves as agents of the Berkshire People's Republic appear one evening camped on the outskirts of town. Their leaders are the imposing amazonian beauty Flame Aurora Greengrass and the charismastic grifter Sylvester "Buddy" Goodfriend, progressive to a fault in their politics and intent on extracting whatever tribute they can from the people of Union Grove.
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ISBN:9780802124920
ISBN:0802124925
Physical Description:print 317 pages ; 22 cm.
Edition:First edition.
Publisher:New York, NY :Atlantic Monthly Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic,[2016]
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