Category: Historical Fiction
Language: EnglishKeywords: Revolution
Written by Jen Silverman
Read by Marin Ireland
Format: M4B
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Unabridged
A woman is pulled into a love affair with a radical activist, unknowingly echoing her familyâs dangerous past and risking the foundations of her future in this electrifying novel.
âAn exhilarating novel of star-crossed romances and radical politics, with writing so evocative I swear I could smell the tear gas.ââNathan Hill, New York Times bestselling author of The Nix and Wellness
Minnow has always tried to lead the life her single father modeledâprivate, quiet, hardworking, apolitical. So she is rocked when an instinctive decision to help a student makes her the notorious public face of a scandal in the small town where she teaches. As tensions rise, death threats follow, and an overwhelmed Minnow flees to a teaching position in Paris. There, she falls into an exhilarating and all-consuming relationship with Charles, a young Frenchman whose activism has placed him at odds with his powerful family. As Minnow is pulled in to the daring protest Charles and his friends are planning, she unknowingly almost repeats a secret tragedy from her familyâs past. Her father wasnât always the restrained, conservative man he appears today. There are things he has taken great pains to conceal from his family and from the world.
In 1968, Keen is avoiding the Vietnam draft by pursuing a PhD at Harvard. He lives his life in the basement chemistry lab, studiously ignoring the news. But when he unexpectedly falls in love with Olya, a fiery community organizer, he is consumed by her world and loses sight of his own. Learning that his deferment has ended and heâs been drafted, Keen agrees to participate in the latest action that Olya is leadingâone with more dangerous and far-reaching consequences than he could have imagined.
Minnowâs and Keenâs intertwining stories take us through the turmoil of the late sixties student movements and into the chaos of the modern world. Exploding with suspense, heart, and intelligence, Thereâs Going to Be Trouble is a story about revolution, legacy, passionate love, and how we live with the consequences of our darkest secrets.
A woman is pulled into a love affair with a radical activist, unknowingly echoing her familyâs dangerous past and risking the foundations of her future in this electrifying novel.
âAn exhilarating novel of star-crossed romances and radical politics, with writing so evocative I swear I could smell the tear gas.ââNathan Hill, New York Times bestselling author of The Nix and Wellness
Minnow has always tried to lead the life her single father modeledâprivate, quiet, hardworking, apolitical. So she is rocked when an instinctive decision to help a student makes her the notorious public face of a scandal in the small town where she teaches. As tensions rise, death threats follow, and an overwhelmed Minnow flees to a teaching position in Paris. There, she falls into an exhilarating and all-consuming relationship with Charles, a young Frenchman whose activism has placed him at odds with his powerful family. As Minnow is pulled in to the daring protest Charles and his friends are planning, she unknowingly almost repeats a secret tragedy from her familyâs past. Her father wasnât always the restrained, conservative man he appears today. There are things he has taken great pains to conceal from his family and from the world.
In 1968, Keen is avoiding the Vietnam draft by pursuing a PhD at Harvard. He lives his life in the basement chemistry lab, studiously ignoring the news. But when he unexpectedly falls in love with Olya, a fiery community organizer, he is consumed by her world and loses sight of his own. Learning that his deferment has ended and heâs been drafted, Keen agrees to participate in the latest action that Olya is leadingâone with more dangerous and far-reaching consequences than he could have imagined.
Minnowâs and Keenâs intertwining stories take us through the turmoil of the late sixties student movements and into the chaos of the modern world. Exploding with suspense, heart, and intelligence, Thereâs Going to Be Trouble is a story about revolution, legacy, passionate love, and how we live with the consequences of our darkest secrets.