Waiting for the Revolution
A Novel
by Ross Klatte

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Waiting for the Revolution is basically a love story set in a time of political and social unrest in America that begins in Oaxaca, Mexico, and moves to a back-to-the-land hippie commune in British Columbia, Canada. There, at the beginning of the 1970s, Thomas Weber, a dropped-out Chicago journalist, and his wife, Angela, play out their troubled relationship among political dissidents seeking a counterculture alternative to the “straight” society they’ve rejected.

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Ross Klatte has given us a robust novel which captures the political and social turmoil as well as the drug-addled opportunistic sexual muddle of the 60's and 70's. "Too young to be a beatnik, too old to be a hippy", reckons Tom, taking a break from newspaper writing in Chicago, a would-be novelist and spurned husband. He searches for Angela from Oaxaca, across America and over the border to a back to the land commune in British Columbia. Angela reclaims her moral compass, rejecting a charismatic commune leader (I found myself cheering her on!) and Tom, a decent man at heart, rediscovers his Minnesotan farm boy roots. Raunchy, soul-searching, authentic--this is the real deal. - Caroline Woodward According to mythology, those who came of age in the Sixties and early Seventies thrilled to a magic-carpet-ride of sex, dope, and cheap thrills. But in Waiting for the Revolution, instead of celebrating Woodstock, Janice Joplin, and the romance of marching on Washington, author Ross Klatte plunges us into the pain and confusion of those who narrowly survived turning on, tuning in, and dropping out. Part spell-binding love story, part expose of the true cost of rebellion, this skillfully written novel evokes a world of Hippie communes, partner-switching, bad drug trips, and social experiments gone wrong. You want a vivid flashback? Try Waiting for the Revolution. --Ken McGoogan, whose latest book is Searching for Franklin

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Ross Klatte was born in Minneapolis and grew up on his parents' dairy farm west of the city. He served a hitch in the US Navy as a journalist, and after obtaining a degree in journalism from the University of Minnesota, worked in that profession in Chicago and Detroit before emigrating with his wife, April, to Canada in 1971. He is the author of Leaving the Farm (Oolichan Books, 2007), a memoir, whose opening chapter years earlier won first prize in the personal essay division of the annual CBC Literary Competition. In 2011, for a short story previously published in The New Orphic Review, he was shortlisted for Canada's Journey Prize. He and his wife live on a mountainside near Nelson, BC, and despite advancing age continue to enjoy hikes in their beautiful part of the world as well as winter escapes to Mexico.

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