by Jonathan Lethem · Doubleday · tapa dura · ISBN 9780385534932
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Dissident Gardens is a captivating novel by Jonathan Lethem that tells the multigenerational saga of a family of American radicals. At the center of the story are two extraordinary women: Rose Zimmer, an inflexible communist, and her daughter Miriam, who seeks her own path in the counterculture of Greenwich Village. Over the years, the novel explores themes of love, politics, and the search for utopia in a constantly changing world.
Jonathan Allen Lethem is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. His first novel, Gun, with Occasional Music, a genre work that mixed elements of science fiction and detective fiction, was published in 1994. In 1999, Lethem published Motherless Brooklyn, a National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel that achieved mainstream success. In 2003, he published The Fortress of Solitude, which became a New York Times Best Seller. In 2005, he received a MacArthur Fellowship. Since 2011, he has taught creative writing at Pomona College. In 2025, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction, a prestigious honor recognizing exceptional artists and scholars in the arts and humanities.
