Radio Free Vermont: A Fable of Resistance [B0159]

2017 HCDJ 1st edition. "I hope no one secedes, but I also hope that Americans figure out creative ways to resist injustice and create communities where everybody counts. We've got a long history of resistance in Vermont and this book is testimony to that fact."-Senator Bernie Sanders. A book that's also the beginning of a movement, Bill McKibben's debut novel Radio Free Vermont follows a band of Vermont patriots who decide that their state might be better off as its own republic. As the host of Radio Free Vermont--"underground, underpowered, and underfoot"--seventy-two-year-old Vern Barclay is currently broadcasting from an "undisclosed and double-secret location." With the help of a young computer prodigy named Perry Alterson, Vern uses his radio show to advocate for a simple yet radical idea: an independent Vermont, one where the state secedes from the United States and operates under a free local economy. But for now, he and his radio show must remain untraceable, because in addition to being a lifelong Vermonter and concerned citizen, Vern Barclay is also a fugitive from the law.

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "The story is fun and light, but the message is deeper: resistance can (and should) be joyful. In Radio Free Vermont, pranks and music and local beer are the means by which hearts and minds are changed. It would be naive to take a work of fiction as a blueprint for national change-but it would be foolish to not let a story like this expand your imagination for how we resist."; "Yes. Yes. YES! This had me smiling cover to cover. Always proud to be a Vermonter."