The daughter and granddaughter of prominent Manhattan lawyers, Meredith McKenzie is destined for the best of everything: top schools, elite social circles, the perfect marriage. Spending her childhood in Germany as her father prosecutes Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg trials, Meredith soaks up the conflict between good and evil as it plays out in real time. When her family returns to the United States, she begins blazing her own trail, swimming against the tides, spurred on by her freethinking liberal grandfather, determined to become a lawyer despite her traditional, conservative father’s objections. She rebels against her parents’ expectations for her debutante ball and other conventions. She forges a lifelong friendship with a young German Jewish woman whose family died in the concentration camps. And while her grandfather rises to the Supreme Court, Meredith enlists in the most pressing causes of her time, fighting for civil rights and an end to the Vietnam War.
From the bright morning of JFK’s inauguration, through the tumultuous years that follow as America hurtles toward the twin assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy, Meredith joins the vanguard of a new generation of women, breaking boundaries socially, politically, and professionally. But when the violence of the era strikes too close to home, her once tightly knit family must survive a devastating loss and rethink their own values and traditions in light of the times.
Encompassing the remarkable people Meredith meets, the historic events she witnesses, and the sacrifices she must make, this is the story of a woman changing her world as she herself is changed by it. Beautifully told, brimming with unforgettable moments and characters, The Good Fight is an inspiring, uplifting novel with resonance for our own time.
From the bright morning of JFK’s inauguration, through the tumultuous years that follow as America hurtles toward the twin assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy, Meredith joins the vanguard of a new generation of women, breaking boundaries socially, politically, and professionally. But when the violence of the era strikes too close to home, her once tightly knit family must survive a devastating loss and rethink their own values and traditions in light of the times.
Encompassing the remarkable people Meredith meets, the historic events she witnesses, and the sacrifices she must make, this is the story of a woman changing her world as she herself is changed by it. Beautifully told, brimming with unforgettable moments and characters, The Good Fight is an inspiring, uplifting novel with resonance for our own time.
曼哈頓著名律師的女兒和孫女梅雷迪思·麥肯齊 (Meredith McKenzie) 注定了擁有最好的一切：頂尖學校、精英社交圈、完美的婚姻。她在德國度過童年，因為她的父親在紐倫堡審判中起訴納粹戰犯，梅雷迪思吸收到現實社會善惡之間的衝突。當她的家人回到美國時，她開始開闢自己的人生道路，逆流向上，受到她充滿自由思想的祖父的激勵，不理會保守傳統父親的反對意見而決心成為一名律師。她反對她父母對她的初次在社交舞會露面和其他習俗的期望。她與一個年輕的德國猶太婦女結下了終生的友誼，這位婦女的家人在集中營中死去。當她的祖父晉升到最高法院時，梅雷迪斯參加了她最急迫的人生目標，爭取公民權利和結束越南戰爭。
從約翰·甘迺迪 (JFK) 就職典禮的光明早晨開始，經過隨著美國迎來馬丁·路德金恩 (Martin Luther King Jr) 和鮑比·肯尼迪 (Bobby Kennedy) 的兩樁暗殺的動盪歲月，梅雷迪思加入了新一代女性的先鋒隊，在社會、政治和專業領域打破了界限。但是，當這個時代的暴力襲擊太迫近時，她曾經緊密結合的家庭必須承受毀滅性的損失，並根據時代的變遷重新思考自己的價值觀和傳統。
包括梅雷迪思遇到的傑出人物，她目睹的歷史事件，以及她必須做出的犧牲，這是一個女人改變她的世界的故事，因為她自己被世界改變了。精彩的講述，充滿難忘的時刻和人物，《傲骨之戰》（The Good Fight）是一部鼓舞人心、令人振奮的小說，在我們這個時代能產生共鳴。
（譯者/劉世明）
（譯者/劉世明）