Bonnie Gold's Background

Bonnie Gold, twenty-eight, Native American, Jewish, Irish, recent PhD in hand, has fallen through the cracks, adrift, and lost without direction or purpose, until she’s drawn into her mother’s uphill battle for governor of the State of Wisconsin.

The Political Campaign

Bonnie’s life improbably begins to come together as her parents’ relationship comes apart under the stress of the all-consuming political campaign fraught with dirty tricks and dark money. Shattered windows, shots in the night, and violence endemic to our troubled political times result in pain and loss that Bonnie must overcome as she is forced to take a leading role in her mother’s campaign in the run-up to the election.

Finding Meaning and Hope

With her father’s guidance she grapples to find meaning in the madness of a world spinning out of control and strength to rise up and lead a new generation of hope and promise.