I Was a Teenage Communist

<p class=ql-align-justify>Comparable to Megan Abbott's <em>Dare Me</em> Elena Ferrante's <em>My Brilliant Friend</em> Roberto Bolano's <em>Savage Detectives</em> and Jonathan Franzen's <em>Crossroads. </em>The story involves a group of diverse non-conformist teenagers in high school during the early 1980's. <span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>With punk rock music as its soundtrack a group of teens discover Marxism and romance in the heart of Ronald Reagan's America and find that in Orange County California asserting one's sexual political and racial identity can be hazardous to one's health.</span></p>