REBEL MOTHER

An adventure tale and intimate true story of a boy on the run with his mother, a housewife turned radical, who kidnapped him and fled to South America to find the communist revolution.

When he was five, Peter Andreas was kidnapped by his mother, Carol, a Mennonite housewife turned radical Marxist, and taken to Chile and Peru to participate in the leftist revolution. Andreas was raised on the run, chasing the revolution from country to country. As Peter and Carol jump from country to country, a warm, unbreakable, and uplifting bond emerges between the two. Even in the toughest of times, even as
Peter is tempted by the stable life his father can offer, he and his mother stick together and rely on each other. The adoration they have for each other leaps off the page.
Drawing upon his mother’s extensive journals, Andreas captures his mother’s experience of these years in vivid detail, and compares them to his own memories. The result is an incredibly vivid portrait of both Peter and his mother.

Peter Andreas is the John Hay Professor of International Studies at Brown University, where he holds a joint appointment between the Department of Political Science and the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Andreas has published ten books, including Smuggler Nation, which was selected by Amazon as one of the twenty best nonfiction books of the year, and by Foreign Affairs as one of the best books of the year on the Western Hemisphere.