We’re incredibly excited to share that our October Book Club selection is Idra Novey’s second novel, Those Who Knew, forthcoming from Viking on November 6, 2018, but available to Rumpus Book Club members in just a few weeks!
On an unnamed island country ten years after the collapse of a US-supported regime, Lena suspects the powerful senator she was involved with back in her student activist days is taking advantage of a young woman who’s been introducing him at rallies. When the young woman ends up dead, Lena revisits her own fraught history with the senator and the violent incident that ended their relationship. What follows is a riveting exploration of the cost of staying silent and the mixed rewards of speaking up in a profoundly divided country.
Rebecca Traister, author of All the Single Ladies, writes:
Those Who Knew speaks with uncommon prescience to the swirl around us. Novey writes, with acuity and depth, about questions of silence, power, and complicity. The universe she has created is imagined, and all too real.
Subscribe to the Rumpus Book Club by September 20 to join us in reading Those Who Knew, culminating in an exclusive online discussion with Idra Novey about the book!
