The Recipe for Revolution
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Overview
The PEN New England Award–winning author returns to Egypt, Maine, where revolution is brewing in a rural compound as the twenty-first century approaches.
It’s September 1999, and Gordon St. Onge, known as “The Prophet”, presides over his controversial Settlement in rural Maine. It is rumored to be a cult, where his many wives and children live off the land and off the grid. The newest member, fifteen year old Brianna Vandermast, is fired up and ready for change. Forming her own militia, Bree spreads her vision by writing “The Recipe”, an incendiary revolutionary document that winds up in the hands of wealthy elites—including one who is about to have a fateful encounter with Gordon.
A chance drinking session during an airport layover brings Gordon together with multinational CEO Bruce Hummer. Bruce hands Gordon a mysterious brass key which has the potential to spark the unrest that is stirring in Egypt, Maine. As word of “The Recipe” spreads, myriad factions from across the country arrive at The Settlement wanting to make Gordon their poster boy. Gordon soon finds himself at the center of an uprising, the consequences of which no one can predict.
It’s September 1999, and Gordon St. Onge, known as “The Prophet”, presides over his controversial Settlement in rural Maine. It is rumored to be a cult, where his many wives and children live off the land and off the grid. The newest member, fifteen year old Brianna Vandermast, is fired up and ready for change. Forming her own militia, Bree spreads her vision by writing “The Recipe”, an incendiary revolutionary document that winds up in the hands of wealthy elites—including one who is about to have a fateful encounter with Gordon.
A chance drinking session during an airport layover brings Gordon together with multinational CEO Bruce Hummer. Bruce hands Gordon a mysterious brass key which has the potential to spark the unrest that is stirring in Egypt, Maine. As word of “The Recipe” spreads, myriad factions from across the country arrive at The Settlement wanting to make Gordon their poster boy. Gordon soon finds himself at the center of an uprising, the consequences of which no one can predict.
Praise for The Recipe for Revolution
New York Times Editors’ Choice“The events of the novel take place circa Y2K, but Chute’s concerns seem very 2020: how reality is named, created, fragmented, trolled, distorted… the writing is often wicked gorgeous. And it’s been her career long passion, this ongoing searing critique of profit’s “god-sized system. In place of a traditional plot, Chute allows characters to slowly emerge, exert a kind of magnetic pull and then recede. It feels like the literary equivalent of a big choir with occasional soloist.” —New York Times Book Review
“[C]haracters and relationships drive this novel with a fierce political vision that feels uniquely tailored for our times.” —Booklist
"Essential reading. . . . [The] third volume in Chute’s blistering series about the Settlement, a radical, politically incorrect collective of the disorderly and disaffected in rural Maine.”—Kirkus Reviews
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“Carolyn Chute is the James Joyce of the backcountry, a Proust of rural society, an original in every meaning of the word.”—New York Times Book Review
“Quirky, intensely original...an intellectual page-turner...Chute combines strident political commentary with humor, surrealism, and inventive language... multilayered and complex, deeply critical of society but fiercely devoted to humans.”—O Magazine
“Deeply felt, scorchingly funny.”—Vanity Fair
“A 700-page piece of wonderful, infuriating, narrative energy...This is the work of a writer at the peak of her craft.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune
“As always Chute’s voice is smart, funny, and fired up about righting the wrongs of the world...fiery, impassioned, and unlike anything else you will ever probably read.” —Boston Globe
“[Chute] writes like a wild animal—ferocious, playful—making mincemeat of contemporary mores. Plenty to gnaw on here.”—More
- Title: The Recipe for Revolution
- Author: Carolyn Chute
- Publisher: Grove Press
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 707
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9780802129529, 9780802129512, 080212951X, 0802129528
- Resource ID: LLS:9780802129529
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-21T13:14:51Z