The next couple of reviews are out in May but we won't be here for much of the month - flying to England and then over to Holland - I'm posting these now so that I can get back to editing.
The Red Squad E.M Broner
An ensemble story told through the eyes of Professor Anka Pappas. Now an English professor at Ohio state but back in the 60’s a PhD-in-waiting instructor at a state college in Detroit and a passionate activist against the war in Vietnam.
When Anka receives ‘herself ‘ in the mail – a red squad file which details the lives loves and crimes of ‘the bullpen ‘ the group of teachers Anka thought of as her family - it unsettles her. Who was the informer among the group? Why send the file now and stir up so many old - sometimes painful - memories
Red Squad is touching and hopeful but also laced with humour that’s as academic and acerbic as Anka herself. Red Squad isn’t so much a whodunit as a whydunit
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