Revolution (20 page)

Then we kept saying, “Oh great,” and throwing up our hands. “Now what are we going to do?” There was a horrible day or two when we didn't know how we were going to make it to the border. Then we made it to the border.

I mean, we didn't just live there for the rest of our lives.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

With heartfelt thanks to the following people for their vital assistance and friendship: Clancy Martin, Chris Miller, Ben Marcus, Diane Williams, Gillian Blake, Ethan Nosowsky, David McCormick, Kaydi and Cean Colcord, Robert Nelson, Rosalyn Olin Porte, Margaret Olin, Nancy Unferth, and, above all, Matt Evans.

Grateful thanks also to the Creative Capital Foundation and the Corporation of Yaddo, and to Eli Horowitz and
McSweeney's
Internet Tendency
, where selections from this book originally appeared.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

D
EB
O
LIN
U
NFERTH
is the author of the story collection
Minor Robberies
and the novel
Vacation
, winner of the 2009 Cabell First Novelist Award. Her work has been featured in
Harper's Magazine
,
McSweeney's
,
The Believer
, and the
Boston Review
. She has received two Pushcart Prizes and a 2009 Creative Capital grant for Innovative Literature. She teaches at Wesleyan University.

ALSO BY DEB OLIN UNFERTH

Vacation

Minor Robberies

 

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

   Unferth, Deb Olin.

Revolution : the year I fell in love and went to join the war / Deb Olin Unferth.—1st ed.

        p. cm.

ISBN 978-0-8050-9323-0

1.  Unferth, Deb Olin—Travel—Central America.   2.  Central America—Description and travel.   3.  Authors, American—21st century—Biography.   I.  Title.

PS3621.N44Z46 2011

813'.6–dc22

[B]                                                               2010023471

First Edition 2011

eISBN 978-1-4299-9212-1

First Henry Holt and Company eBook Edition: February 2011