Something Red is a New York Times 2010 Notable Book

Something Red is a Jewcy Top Ten Fiction Book 2010

Something Red is a finalist for Salon’s Good Sex Awards

Something Red is now in paperback with a brand new cover:

A New York Times Notable Book of 2010

“Sharp and contemplative … Gilmore has pulled off a remarkable feat: not of fusing the personal and the political but of showing why they’re so difficult to reconcile.”–New York Times Book Review

“Ambitious and provocative, more Molotov cocktail than standard-issue domestic drama …”—O, the Oprah Magazine

“These characters are crafted with care, conviction, and a little self-consciousness–which seems just as it ought to be.”–Los Angeles Times

“Rich and entertaining.”–Vanity Fair

“The woes of her characters mirror those of the nation: gone is the heady optimism of the sixties, replaced by disillusionment and ennui…Gilmore can be hilariously eviscerating.” –The New Yorker

In this wonderfully funny and compelling story of a splintering suburban family, Gilmore has written an intimate social history of three generations of American Jews.– The Washington Post

As the Cold War ends, the Goldsteins of Washington, D.C., have regrets…Their kids show a knack for protest, suggesting it’s a trait that skips a generation – an idea Gilmore bolsters with a well-orchestrated denouement that turns the Goldsteins’ world inside out.–People Magazine

In Washington, D.C., life inside the Goldstein home is as tumultuous as the swiftly changing times. In 1979, the Cold War is waning and the age of protest has come and gone, leaving a once radical family to face new challenges.

Dennis, whose government job often takes him to Moscow, struggles both to succeed in a career he doesn’t quite believe in and to live up to his father’s leftist legacy. Sharon, a caterer for the Washington elite, joins a cultlike group in search of the fulfillment she once felt. Happy-go-lucky Benjamin is heading off to college, there to experience an awakening of social conscience, and sixteen-year-old Vanessa finds a cure for alienation in D.C.’s hardcore music scene. As each of them follows separate trajectories of personal protest and compromise along the edge of a new decade, radical traditions long dormant in their family awaken once again, with shocking, far-reaching results.

A poignant story of husbands and wives, parents and children, activists and spies, Something Red is a masterly novel that unfurls with suspense, humor, and insight.