A Riveting Portrait of Rebels Without a Cause

Buffalo NewsJuly 12, 2010

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David Goodwillie's unsettling new novel, "American Subversive," is riveting, relevant and another sad reminder that "homegrown" is no longer a nurturing word.

If it somehow lacks the passion we expect of true terrorism, this is a small complaint in the face of a big idea -- and Goodwillie is so fine a writer that "American Subversive" cannot be ignored.

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A Riveting Portrait of Rebels Without a Cause

Plus, its premise is entirely possible. Insurgence wears many faces, some of them of seemingly decent people like Paige, and like Aidan, whose lives intersect in the days after a bomb goes off at 660 Madison Ave., home of the luxury department store Barneys New York.

As Aidan puts it early in the book:

"We [were] a decade into the ...

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