Journal Entry 1 by sarradee from Dallas, Texas USA on Monday, February 09, 2009

Vida, Piercy's sixth novel, is named for its protagonist, Davida Asch, a radical anti-Vietnam war fugitive eluding capture for her participation in a bombing ten years earlier. Vida's activism recalls Piercy's involvement with SDS; her "group," the Network, pointedly resembles the Weathermen. Vida was one of four people coerced by Randy (an undercover federal agent) into bombing a Mobil Oil office. Thereafter, Vida leads the life of a fugitive; she frets over cameras in drugstores, can never use her name; calls from pay phone to pay phone; disguises herself to visit her dying mother in the hospital. When her mother does die, Vida cannot attend the funeral, although the FBI does.

 

Journal Entry 2 by sarradee from Dallas, Texas USA on Wednesday, February 18, 2009

The subject matter of this book is a little dated, but it was an interesting read nonetheless. I was a trifle disappointed with the ending as I found it anticlimactic. 

Journal Entry 3 by sarradee at in Austin, Texas USA on Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Released 3 yrs ago (3/10/2009 UTC) at in Austin, Texas USA

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Brought to the March Bookcrossing Meetup.