Notes on Chapter 09

Near the end of this chapter we take up the issue whether The Minute Women, sans Caroline, will be taken as a shill of the Democratic Party.  If so, it would seem to doom their goal of getting many Republican voters as supporters.  

I likewise have wondered in writing the entire book whether I've been sufficiently even handed to get Republican readers or if they'd find what is argued too over the top.  

In the absence of a real world group like The Minute Women in the book, my hope is that the book itself would spread the word about these issues and/or a few early readers embrace the themes of the book and it is them who spread the word. The question is whether this can be done largely in a nonpartisan way.  I hope that is possible but I'm not sure it is.

I also want to note that I was quite unsure of the remaining plot when writing this chapter.  Would Caroline come back or not?  This was a mystery not just for the reader.  I was unsure about it myself.  That uncertainty translated into a good deal of writer's block in producing Chapter 10.