title: The Unwitting: A Novel
author:  Ellen Feldman 
description: Functioning both as a complex portrait of marriage and a clear snapshot of a particularly paranoid time in American history, Feldmans latest novel (after Next to Love, 2011), set in the early sixties, takes on the Cold War. When liberal journalist Nell Benjamin is informed that her beloved husband has been murdered in a mugging, her bright, beautiful world is upended. The editor of a progressive magazine, Charlie had been her soul mate. But what she discovers about his work, and the shadowy corporation responsible for funding it, shatters her illusions about the man she thought she knew so well. Her grand love affair is now revealed to be based on keeping secrets, and her sense of betrayal runs deep. Unsure of how to tell her daughter and how to face her friends, Nell must come to terms with her own unwitting participation in the charade. Feldman intertwines the personal and the political while clearly drawing the cultural atmosphere of the early 60s, when definitions of patriotism were not so clear-cut and communism was a palpable threat. --Joanne Wilkinson
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  "Deborah Feldman was raised in an insular, oppressive world where she was
  taught that, as a woman, she wasn't capable of independent thought.  
  But she found the pluck and determination needed to make the break from that
  world and has written a brave, riveting account of her journey. Unorthodox is
  harrowing, yet triumphant."--JEANNETTE WALLS, #1 bestselling author of The
  Glass Castle and Half Broke Horses
  
  
  
  
  
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  I have secrets too. Maybe Bubby knows about them, but she won't say anything
  about mine if I don't say anything about hers. Or perhaps I have only imagined
  her complicity; there is a chance this agreement is only one-sided. Would
  Bubby tattle on me? I hide my books under the bed, and she hides hers in her
  lingerie, and once a year when Zeidy inspects the house for Passover, poking
  through our things, we hover anxiously, terrified of being found out. Zeidy
  even rifles through my underwear drawer. Only whe