Name: Vida
ISBN: 9780449244098

Marge Piercy

Vida

Lindy

Vida is probably the kind of thing where either you're going to be able to get* it or you're not. 

I got it, but I'm not sure if I liked reading this book. I know I don't think it's especially well-written**, but nonetheless I am fascinated by it, particularly with regard to how Piercy chooses to convey (or not convey) the characters' political stances and that the book was written and published prior to the 1981 Brink's robbery. 

People to whom I would recommend this book:
- Anyone who has survived a claustrophobic fringe lefty activist/social scene where everybody sleeps with everybody and from which you will immediately be cast out if you toe the ideological line by suggesting that maybe misogyny isn't a bourgeois issue or whatever. 
- Anyone who has survived an activist scene in where people spend more time arguing about terminology and creating internal documents than anything else. 
- Anyone who has known people who go around repeating verbatim talking points from the last Leftbook post/zine/whatever they read two minutes ago. Or if you've ever believed a political something and not known why you believed it. 
- People who like stories about sisters and sisterhood. 
- People who are interested in tracking depictions of homosexuality/bisexuality through time. 
- Aspiring screenwriters! I feel like  Vida would really shine in a television adaptation with an ensemble cast. 

* as in, understand on an intimate level
**There are, like, five questionable sex scenes within the first fifty pages; thankfully they're less frequent after that.

Vida

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