In These 'Gardens,' The Tree Rings Of The Radical Left
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include The Ecstasy of Influence, Chronic City and Girl in
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Lucas/Courtesy of Doubleday  Mohsin Hamid's latest novel is
called How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia.  Jonathan Lethem's
latest novel, Dissident Gardens, is expansive in scale.
Chronologically speaking, it begins in the 1930s with Communist
Party meetings in the U.S. It passes through the rise of
McCarthyism, the establishment of the New York Mets, the hippie
Age of Aquarius and the AIDS crisis. It ventures briefly abroad,
to such places as behind-the-Iron-Curtain East Germany and war-
torn Nicaragua. It ends in the Obama era of Occupy s