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Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the Sandinistas
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About Revolution: The Year I Fell In Love And Went To
About the Author Deb Olin Unferth is the author of six books, including two novels, a memoir, two story collections, and a graphic novel. Her essays and fiction have appeared in Harper's, the New York Times, The Paris Review, Granta, Vice, and McSweeney's. She has received a Guggenheim fellowship, three Pushcart Prizes, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. An associate professor at the University of Texas in Austin, she also is the director of the Pen City Writers, a creative-writing program at a south Texas penitentiary. Product Description Hailed as a "virtuosic one-woman show" (Time Out New York) this New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice pick tells the funny and poignant story of the year the author ran away from college with her idealistic boyfriend and followed him to Nicaragua to join the Sandinistas. Despite their earnest commitment to a myriad of revolutionary causes and to each other, Deb and her boyfriend 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, although the world doesn't know it yet, especially not Unferth and her fiancé (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. Review “This is a very funny, excoriatingly honest story of being young, semi-idealistic, stupid and in love. If you have ever been any of these things, you'll devour it.” ―Dave Eggers“Revolution calls itself a memoir, but Deb Olin Unferth's tale of dropping out of college to join the Sandinista revolution is something altogether stranger and more dazzling.” ―Time Out New York“There is something in Unferth's combination of spare language and intelligent observation, her darts of emotional insight shooting through a highly personal screen, that is reminiscent of Joan Didion. That's a lot to live up to, but the two writers share a sense of beauty and loss and get something on the page that implies something else just out of reach.” ―Los Angeles Times“Unferth's application of her imagination to her subject…evokes what David Foster Wallace refers to as ‘the click,' a feeling one gets when reading work that's firing on all cylinders.” ―Christopher Sorrentino, Bookforum“Unferth surely can write...You find yourself re-reading descriptions…simply for the pleasure of the language.” ―Chicago Tribune“[O]ne of the best memoirs of the past several years. It's a difficult book to stop reading; Unferth is charming, charismatic, and breathtakingly smart… [Revolution is] more than enough to catapult Unferth into the ranks of America's great young writers.” ―Bookslut“The uniqueness of its love story sneaks up on you.” ―The Week“Unferth's depiction of the futility of Deb's odyssey is devastatingly frank…At the heart of Revolution is Unferth's slightly eccentric take on the venerable confusion of the political and the personal…how does one become a person? How is the person to be made?” ―Madison Smartt Bell, The Nation“The book is sly, devastating, and savagely funny, with style to spare.” ―Boston Phoenix“This clearheaded and funny memoir captures the grit and chaos of a tumultuous moment in Central American history, but it's really a coming-of-age story.” ―Mother Jones“Hers is a bildungsroman for the Believer set… impossible to dislike…The jokes are crisp and understated, the sentences clean and knapped.” ―New York Observer“Eighteen and in love, the possibilities seem endless in this endearing com
