The son of Weather Underground radicals tells the story of a childhood on the run and a half-century of revolutionary struggle in America.

From the Norton website:

Zayd Ayers Dohrn was born underground. His parents were fugitives after a decade fighting the US government; his mother was on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list. All his life, Dohrn’s parents said his birth marked a clean break with violent revolutionary struggle, but in this explosive memoir, he discovers that story wasn’t entirely true.This masterpiece of personal and social history brings us inside an infamous family and their lives underground. Drawing on exclusive interviews, declassified FBI files, and long-hidden letters, photos, and diaries, Dohrn tells a new story of radical resistance, including revelations about the Weathermen’s bombing campaign, their secret alliance with the Black Liberation Army, and the dramatic prison break of Assata Shakur.

Reckoning with the emotional damage the Weathermen inflicted on their victims, their children, and themselves, Dohrn’s unflinching memoir explores the roots of radicalism and asks how a young person survives when the place they feel safest—with their family—also puts them in danger.

Advance praise:

Riveting as a thriller, this wise and searching memoir . . . tells a story about America we’ve never quite heard before. . . . Fearless, big-hearted, and profound. I simply couldn’t put it down.

—Cheryl Strayed

A fascinating journey that illuminates, in often thought-provoking ways, the politics of violence in radical movements.

—Angela Davis

Zayd Ayers Dohrn is a master storyteller. . . . The rare memoir that reads like a fast-paced thriller and leaves you wrestling with some of the most profound political questions of our time.

—Jon Favreau

It’s like nothing I’ve ever read. . . . An astonishing story written with such an open heart.

—Alex Kotlowitz

What a book! Exhilarating, maddening, contemplative, and mournful.

—Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Conjured into the present by a genuine literary master, recollecting what he saw as a sensitive child, the oft-told tale of the Weathermen catches fire here.

—Rick Perlstein

A rare and profound gift—one that breaks your heart even as it quietly fills it with hope. . . . It is everything we need right now: deeply moving and urgent.

—Heather Ann Thompson

Poignant, fueled with love for justice, with faith in other people, with terrific, often heartbreaking stories. . . . A page-turner and a statement of belief in the future.

—Aleksandar Hemon