BOOK: Alias - by M.E. Ryan

[Frederick Muller <fmuller@SATURN.PLANET.NET>]

Ryan, Mary Elizabeth._Alias_,1997
      I don't know how to classify this book -- maybe mystery, maybe
suspense, maybe family relations, maybe historical fiction; whatever
it is, is good.  The story tells the tale of a high school boy and
his mother who keep moving and changing their identities.  The boy
never stops to think about why until he has to do a report on
Vietnam and finds his mother on the internet.  She is on the lam!
She was in a protest group that planned to blow up an ROTC
headquarters during the Vietnam War.  They were raided and most were
arrested.  She has been running and hiding for 20 years.  I thought
she was on the witness protection program.  In the first 2/3's of
the book the son is just accepting the constant moving and not
questioning.  After it clicks in his head, the book really picks up.
I could not put it down for the last third.  Don't miss this 170 page
book.  The great ending is worth the gentle, slow beginning.  Great
story writing.
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