Harriet Clark's novel follows Suzanna, a child whose mother is imprisoned after a bank robbery with radical accomplices. Raised by her unforgiving grandmother and surrounded by former Communist Party members who remain devoted to the cause even as history moves on, Suzanna grows up caught between worlds. One world is defined by punishment and its institutional architecture; the other by the desire for revolutionary change and the people left behind when that change doesn't come. Clark explores how political commitment shapes families and how children navigate the consequences of their parents' choices. The grandmother's discipline provides stability but also judgment; the old radicals offer warmth but also a worldview increasingly out of step with reality. Clark writes with precision about the textures of these different environments and the ways Suzanna learns to move between them. The novel examines questions about loyalty, inheritance, and what we owe to causes larger than ourselves. It's also a portrait of a particular American left-wing milieu, the aging veterans of 1930s organizing and their complicated legacies. Clark brings novelistic attention to people and places often reduced to political abstractions.