Karen Hollander is writing a book. A book about the thing she did in the late 1960s an episode she has kept secret for forty years. Today she is a celebrated attorney and once had her name placed in nomination for the Supreme Court. She worked for President Clinton who they called "Fat Boy". Karen has done some pretty bad things in her past. With the imminent publication of her memoir - now is the time to let the world in on her shocking secret. She is finally sharing her past life with her national-security-cowboy boyfriend. Her Occupy activist granddaughter accidentally reads a few pages and insists on reading each chapter as it is written. Will she be surprised at the things her grandmother did or will she take it in stride as she is somewhat of a rebel herself?
True Believers: A Novel
By Kurt Andersen
Random House
July 2012
Karen accompanies her granddaughter to Miami to protest "The special G-20 summit". Things get a little hairy in Miami. Karen's daughter can't believe her 60-something year old mother would do such a thing. After all, she is a celebrated attorney and really shouldn't encourage her granddaughter to protest anything. Karen can't wrap her mind around the fact that she has never been indicted or served time in jail. Who has been looking out for her all this time, especially her violent protests against the war? Some agency should have a long list of what she did. She would ask Stewart to help her.
This is an interesting read, but not very believable. There is some foul language, which contributes nothing to the book.
I didn't particularly like the book. The book is fiction, but just a little too much fiction for my taste.
