Anarchists in Love

Following their chance meeting at a New York café in 1890, Emma Goldman and Alexander ‘Sasha’ Berkman join New York’s political underground. Swept up by her new, revolutionary beliefs, Emma gains a reputation as a rousing public speaker, extolling the radical virtues of workers’ rights, free love and women’s liberation. At the same time, Sasha’s own ambitions become mired in jealousy and inhibition. But when news arrives that industrialist Henry C. Frick has ordered the fatal shootings of striking steel-plant workers in Pennsylvania, Sasha and Emma plot a violent act that, they hope, will ignite a worldwide anarchist revolution. As the first work of fiction to recount this captivating story, Anarchists in Love casts light not only on a politically charged chapter of history, but also on forces of desperation and insurgence that are still in effect today.

“ Hough’s latest novel is an expertly written, riveting ride through the stark yet full-blooded lives of two revolutionists bound by love, and the powerful desire to thrash against a corrupted social order. The path of their lives is an elemental saga, fraught with drama and violence, but underpinned by a passion that is as important and relevant now as it was at the incendiary close of the nineteenth century. ”