A New York Times Bestseller

On Christmas night, 1998, Maria Meyers - a New York single mother with a radical past - receives a call from the State Department: her daughter, Pearl, has chained herself to the flagpole outside the American embassy in Dublin and has not eaten in six weeks. Maria, who has always congratulated herself on Pearl's liberal upbringing, reexamines all her assumptions as she flies to Ireland, determined to prevent her daughter's death.