The Recipe for Revolution. Carolyn Chute

      

      Also by Carolyn Chute

      The Beans of Egypt, Maine

      Letourneau’s Used Auto Parts

      Merry Men

      Snow Man

      The School on Heart’s Content Road

      Treat Us Like Dogs and We Will Become Wolves

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      Published simultaneously in Canada

      Printed in the United States of America

      This title was typeset in 12-pt. Granjon LT with Bernhard Modern by Alpha Design and Composition of Pittsfield, NH.

      First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition: February 2020

      first edition

      ISBN 978-0-8021-2951-2

      eISBN 978-0-8021-2952-9

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      Author’s Note

      The Recipe for Revolution is one of several novels that make up the School on Heart’s Content Road “four-ojilly,” a series of overlapping or parallel books that focus on different characters and their place in the story’s key events. Characters who play major roles in one or more of the books may be only walk-ons in others. Each book stands alone. No need to read them in a certain order.

      Welcome

      to

      The

      Recipe for

      Revolution

      

. . . as told by many witnesses: friends, family, spies, agents, demons, critical thinkers, and other beings, testimonies verifying and conflicting, some voices very large, others somewhat tiny.

      Author’s Note 2

      There is a character list at the very back of this book to help with identifying important and semi-important characters. Don’t twist your head trying to keep every character straight. Continually referring to the list is not necessary. As you read along, eventually characters who are meant to matter a lot will become obvious. Others are walk-ons, walk-bys, faces in the crowd. I, myself, love character lists because I like to refresh myself on how characters look and how they might be related and associated. Maybe you do, too.

      List of Icons

      Home (the St. Onge Settlement)

      The voice of Mammon

      Neighbors

      Out in the world

      Claire and Bonnie Loo and other women who run things at the Settlement, usually speaking to us from the future

      The Bureau

      Others speaking from the future

      The screen insists, scolds, grins, cajoles

      Voice of Pirate Radio interrupts

      The Apparatus speaks

      Secret Agent Jane Meserve speaks

      Voices of the Crude and Raw speak

History as it Happens*/ History (the past) and critical thinkers

      The deepest voice speaks

      Microorganisms speak

      Deep State

      Bruce Hummer speaks

      Dear Reader

      Cyberspace

      Think tanks and tin hat conspiracy theorists

      * History as it Happens are settlement-made books of “news” and illustrations.

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