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Burning Questions

A Novel

Alix Kates Shulman
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Pages
374
Year
2012
Language
English

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A provocative coming-of-age chronicle of the Women's Liberation Movement, as seen through the eyes of a young woman who flees midwestern suburban life to find her true self in 1950s New York City Eighteen-year-old Zane IndiAnna feels trapped by life in her small midwestern town. So she sets out for New York, landing in Greenwich Village during the revolutionary days of Allen Ginsburg and Jack Kerouac. Zane's story of rebellious political awakening plays out over the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, mirroring the rise of the Women's Liberation Movement and bringing the evolution of American feminism to vivid life.   Stirring and unforgettable, Burning Questions is a timeless story filled with humor, passion, and revolutionary spirit.

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"It brought back to me in a rush of emotion . . . how the women's movement began for all of us."
Simone de Beauvior
"Rings with political passion and conviction."
Rolling Stone
"Moving."
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