Letters of Insurgents

Two individuals living on distant continents resume contact through correspondence. They describe meaningful relationships in their lives during the twenty years since their youthful liaison, comparing the choices each took. Yarostan lives in an unnamed workers' republic; Sophia in an anonymous Western democracy. They both make efforts to lead meaningful lives. Along the way, they encounter bureaucrats, idealists, racists, flouters of social convention, laborers, militants, professors, jailers, hucksters, and more.

In important respects, Sophia's biography parallels that of Fredy Perlman.

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