Trance: A Novel

2005 National Book Award Finalist for FictionA Los Angeles Times Book Review Favorite Book of the YearA Publishers Weekly Top Ten Novel of the Year. It is 1974 and a tiny band of self-styled urban guerrillas calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) abducts a newspaper heiress who then takes the guerrilla nameTania and shocks the world by choosing to remain with her former captors. Soon most of the SLA are dead killed in a suicidal confrontation with police in Los Angeles forcing Tania and her two remaining comrades--the pompous and abusive General Teko and his duplicitous lieutenant Yolanda--into hiding where they will remain for the next sixteen months. These are the months of Tanias sentimental education.