Susie Alioto is a longtime political militant.
But is the new man any more reliable than the ones who\'ve failed her in the past? Meanwhile her son, the apolitical math geek, adds an offbeat and comic perspective that may offer a clue to the personal and political intrigues..
In the midst of this turmoil, Susie stumbles into unexpected romance.
The dilemma escalates into an existential crisis.
People\'s lives are involved, and she doesn\'t know what to do.
Though Susie tries to hew to her principles, the true nature of justice becomes muddled, and her Anarchist heroes-including the grizzled Malatesta on her refrigerator-provide no clear answer.
Cops pound on her door to demand information.
A young woman dressed in Antifa gear rescues her, and Susie is drawn into a mysterious intrigue involving angry activists and devious capitalists, gentrification, arson, even mobsters.
Her son Eric, a budding mathematician, mocks her as a "Bourgeois anarchist." As the story opens, violence breaks out at a peaceful rally, and Susie is injured.
A portrait of her special Anarchist hero, Errico Malatesta, hangs on her refrigerator with an inspirational quote of his: "Impossibility never prevented anything from happening." Yet Susie now teaches at an expensive private school, and her life is comfortably middle-class.
She marches for gun control, for Black Lives Matter, for action against climate change.
She protests with young people to demand justice and human rights.
After college she spent two decades in an Anarchist commune, and at age 66 her beliefs haven\'t wavered.
Susie Alioto is a longtime political militant
