After the Revolution: Cutting Edge Reading

After The Revolution by Amy Herzog is a bold and moving portrait of an American Family in an intergenerational tailspin, forced to reconcile a thorny and delicate legacy.  The brilliant Emma Joseph proudly carries the torch of her family’s Marxist tradition, devoting her life to the memory of her blacklisted grandfather. But when history reveals a shocking truth about the man himself, the entire family is forced to confront questions of honesty and allegiance they thought had been resolved.

“After The Revolution is a shrewd, ironic meditation on what we do with history, how we appropriate it for our own psychological needs.”

---The New Yorker