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Novelist and Atlantic staff writer Sochiel Gonzalez, has a fascinating new essay reckoning

with her mother's radical politics and role in her life.

It's a rich examination of an earlier era when being in the Socialist Workers Party

meant dedicating your life to the cause, even at the expense of your family.

Here in the Bay Area, in this very audience, I am sure we have both children like Gonzalez

and parents like her mother. And we'll all talk about what it is and is not worth giving up

for your politics. That's coming up next after this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. In her new Atlantic essay, Sochiel Gonzalez,

details her complex and disappointing relationship with her mother,

a loyal comrade in the Socialist Workers' Party. Her mother was not a core caretaker for her,

but as a child, Gonzales lionized her anyway. My mother hadn't ditched me, she was working to save the

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