WIDE AWAKE NOW

Max Meyers radiates the tension that begins on Election Day 2024 in this charged and disquieting book. Duncan is a queer, Jewish teen, who, along with his first boyfriend, has helped elect the first gay, Jewish president. Duncan travels with a coalition of diverse campaign workers to take a stand in Kansas--a state that the opposition refuses to concede. Meyers conveys a palpable sense of anxiety, including Duncan's apprehensiveness with his new lover and the shared anxiety of a bus packed with united folks of various ages, races, sexual orientations, and religions--all heading to Kansas to stand with millions in demanding democracy. Rousing political speeches match the intensity of our current world. Though the story is didactic in parts, Meyers delivers that didacticism with passion. L.T. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine [Published: JUNE 2024]