American Woman: A Novel

**The acclaimed author delivers a tale of race, class, and resistance inspired by the Patty Hearst kidnapping: "I couldn't put [it] down" (Joan Didion).**
On the lam for an act of terror against the American government, twenty-five-year old Jenny Shimada agrees to care for three younger fugitives whom a shadowy figure from her radical past has spirited out of California. One of them, the kidnapped daughter of a wealthy newspaper magnate in San Francisco, has become a national celebrity for embracing her captors' ideology and joining their terrorist cell.
A thought-provoking meditation on themes of race, identity, and class, *American Woman* explores the psychology of the young terrorists, the intensity of their isolated existence, and the paranoia and fear that undermine their ideals.