Eat the Document: A Novel - Softcover

Spiotta's writing brims with energy and intelligence."
-- The New York Times Book Review

"Infused with subtle wit...singularly powerful and provocative...Spiotta has a wonderful ironic sensibility, juxtaposing '70s fervor with '90s expediency."
-- The Boston Globe

"Scintillating...Spiotta creates a mesmerizing portrait of radicalism's decline."
-- The Seattle Times

"Stunning...a glittering book that possesses the staccato ferocity of Joan Didion and the historical resonance and razzle-dazzle language of Don DeLillo."
-- Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

Idealistic activists Bobby and Mary find the course of their lives irrevocably changed when a series of radical protests against the Vietnam War goes wrong, a situation that forces them to separate and culminates years later in painful memories.