’A mesmerising’journey: from bomber to motherhood, from American subversive to middle-aged widow...Dana Spiotta runs the narrative intrigue with assurance, linking the youth-culture disaffection of the 1970s drop-outs with the dissidence of the 1990S generation. The mental energy in this novel is absorbing. Spiotta expresses its diversity with such nuance that it makes you gasp’

--Scotland on Sunday

Eat the Document is a compelling story of activism, sacrifice and the cost of living a secret. It tells the story of two lovers, passionately committed 1970s anti-war protestors who, as a consequence of choices made back then, have had to erase their pasts, forge new identities and never see each other again. Dana Spiotta illuminates the buried connections between past and present - language, music, technology and activism - with coolness and precision, creating a multi-faceted portrait of three decades in America.