State Of The Union
Hannah Buchan leads an orderly life in a small town in Maine — a schoolteacher, married to a doctor, with two grown up children. However, her past.. Lire la suite
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Hannah Buchan leads an orderly life in a small town in Maine — a
schoolteacher, married to a doctor, with two grown up children. However,
her past conceals a dark secret. Thirty years ago she had a brief,
dangerous fling with Tobias Judson, a high profile student activist,
which she had reconciled to that internal, off-limits attic room marked
“Ancient History.” But when Tobias suddenly pops up out of nowhere with a
book about his radical years, her life goes into free-fall. And before
she knows it, Hannah discovers that a long-ago transgression is never
really forgotten.
Set amid two wildly contrasting periods of
recent American life — the militant 60s and 70s, and the new-found
conservatism of today — State of the Union is a remarkable portrait of
one woman’s attempts to find her own way in the shifting political
currents of her time. But it is also an intriguing portrait of the
complexities of a long marriage, the ongoing guilt of parenthood, the
perpetual tension between familial responsibility and personal freedom,
and the divisive debate between liberal and conservative values that so
engulfs the United States today.
