The Recipe for Revolution
The PEN New England Award–winning author returns to Egypt, Maine, where revolution is brewing in a rural compound as the twenty-first century approaches.
It's September 1999, and Gordon St. Onge, known as "The Prophet", presides over his controversial Settlement in rural Maine. It is rumored to be a cult, where his many wives and children live off the land and off the grid. The newest member, fifteen year old Brianna Vandermast, is fired up and ready for change. Forming her own militia, Bree spreads her vision by writing "The Recipe", an incendiary revolutionary document that winds up in the hands of wealthy elites—including one who is about to have a fateful encounter with Gordon.
A chance drinking session during an airport layover brings Gordon together with multinational CEO Bruce Hummer. Bruce hands Gordon a mysterious brass key which has the potential to spark the unrest that is stirring in Egypt, Maine. As word of "The Recipe" spreads, myriad factions from across the country arrive at The Settlement wanting to make Gordon their poster boy. Gordon soon finds himself at the center of an uprising, the consequences of which no one can predict.
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The Recipe for Revolution
The PEN New England Award–winning author returns to Egypt, Maine, where revolution is brewing in a rural compound as the twenty-first century approaches.
It's September 1999, and Gordon St. Onge, known as "The Prophet", presides over his controversial Settlement in rural Maine. It is rumored to be a cult, where his many wives and children live off the land and off the grid. The newest member, fifteen year old Brianna Vandermast, is fired up and ready for change. Forming her own militia, Bree spreads her vision by writing "The Recipe", an incendiary revolutionary document that winds up in the hands of wealthy elites—including one who is about to have a fateful encounter with Gordon.
A chance drinking session during an airport layover brings Gordon together with multinational CEO Bruce Hummer. Bruce hands Gordon a mysterious brass key which has the potential to spark the unrest that is stirring in Egypt, Maine. As word of "The Recipe" spreads, myriad factions from across the country arrive at The Settlement wanting to make Gordon their poster boy. Gordon soon finds himself at the center of an uprising, the consequences of which no one can predict.
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The Recipe for Revolution

The Recipe for Revolution

by Carolyn Chute
The Recipe for Revolution

The Recipe for Revolution

by Carolyn Chute

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The PEN New England Award–winning author returns to Egypt, Maine, where revolution is brewing in a rural compound as the twenty-first century approaches.
It's September 1999, and Gordon St. Onge, known as "The Prophet", presides over his controversial Settlement in rural Maine. It is rumored to be a cult, where his many wives and children live off the land and off the grid. The newest member, fifteen year old Brianna Vandermast, is fired up and ready for change. Forming her own militia, Bree spreads her vision by writing "The Recipe", an incendiary revolutionary document that winds up in the hands of wealthy elites—including one who is about to have a fateful encounter with Gordon.
A chance drinking session during an airport layover brings Gordon together with multinational CEO Bruce Hummer. Bruce hands Gordon a mysterious brass key which has the potential to spark the unrest that is stirring in Egypt, Maine. As word of "The Recipe" spreads, myriad factions from across the country arrive at The Settlement wanting to make Gordon their poster boy. Gordon soon finds himself at the center of an uprising, the consequences of which no one can predict.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780802129529
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Publication date: 04/12/2022
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 707
File size: 2 MB

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            Bree spreads her ringless hand on the thick stapled document lying between three empty coffee mugs on the long leafed table.  She says, “What is this?”

            He is just now entering the room with two more mugs, these with maple milk in them, one for her, one for him.  His eyes widen. “Oh that.  Well, in this world there’s your Recipe.  Then there’s their Recipe.”

            Her voice has always a smoky edge.  “Project Megiddo it says.  It’s the FBI.  But what are you doing with it?”  She giggles.

            He positions the two brimming mugs on the table.  He glances at her face which is purposely hidden by squiggles and twists of shining young-girl-hair, perfectly orange hair, her face deformed by whatever it was that went wrong when she was the size of a thumb…or earlier…maybe when she was a mere idea…though who could imagine Bree, her honey-color eyes set apart like a funhouse mirror image and her mind that to him once seemed shy, nervous or something…but, no, he is beginning to understand that she is not nervous of anything.  He bets that the coil of her brain is radiating far more redly than her hair.

            He explains, “Everybody has a copy of that thing.  It’s not top secret.  It was issued to fire departments, cops, EMTs.  Rex…you know…he’s with the volunteer fire crowd.”

            “I figured.  Cuz of the red light on the dash in his pickup,” she says in a warm way.

            He grunts.  “Richard York.  He’s just like you.  He loves to share.  He’s probably churned out half a million copies of that report.”

            She giggles.

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