Carolina Garcia-Ramirez is a rising star in national politics, taking on the establishment with her progressive agenda. Tough, outspoken, and driven, the young congresswoman has ignited a new conversation in Boston about race, poverty, health care, and the environment. Now facing her second campaign, she finds herself not only fighting a tight primary with an old guard challenger but also contending with numerous death threats coming from hundreds...

Along with his own compelling narratives, Elling adapts the works of contemporary poets Franz Wright and Robert Bly, the Nineteenth century abolitionist poet Frances E.W. Harper and Nobel-winning author Toni Morrison.