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...Cantor describes Great Neck in the 1950s and 1960s as “exuberant.” The town’s residents were moving up in the world, and, according to Cantor, “they spent their money with vulgarity and delight...
...book also explores Mississippi’s Freedom Summer, the 1964 campaign to enfranchise black voters, from the perspectives of both black leaders and white volunteers. Cantor says that as far as he knows, his description is true...
...novel, Cantor depicts an incident in which Beth’s comrades accidentally detonate an explosive within their own headquarters in New York, resulting in the death of many Weathermen. In reality, March 1970 saw the explosion of a Greenwich Village townhouse in which members of the group were killed...
Despite its accurate portrayal of the past, the novel is not directly about history, but instead “about the fantasies that made the history,” according to Cantor...
...history is a major theme within the book, especially as it relates to guilt, Cantor says...