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Three years after her literary debut with Party
Party/Girlfriends, praised by Kurt Vonnegut as
"strong, imaginative, spookily candid," Ronni Sand-
roff gives us a powerful new novel. In Fighting Back
she takes us into the life, the feelings, the fears of a
young woman entangled in- and trying desperatcly
to get out of-a religious organization that has a total
and terrifying control over its members.
The Church of All is in New York, its converts
on the street corners-their faces shining with
sincerity-stopping pedestrians, pressing leaflets on
them, speaking earnestly about the Church. But
Jeanie Burger knows more about it than they do.
She was there at the beginning, when the Church of
All was only a small commune on Vancouver Island,
a few young people trying a different way of living,
held hy the presencc of the mystical Eli Zinger, his
power of leadership almost beyond his own control,
his serenc blue eyes seeming to promise all of them
whatever they most wanted.
What Jeanie wanted was great social transfor-
marion. A girl from the Bronx, a third-generation
radical (listening to her grandfather s stories, to the
political discussions swirling above her head, figur-
ing things out), she was raised to take on the world.
And Eli Zinger wrapped her in her dream, gave her
a mission, made her his political adviser. Until the
dream began to dissolve: the commune becoming
"the Church" (books forbidden, meditation en-
forced), different forces taking control-people she
didn t like, or trust. Her husband, Dennis, "the
Brainstorm," always engaged in some kind of re-
search she didn t want to know about.
Until, finally, Jeanie walked out, taking her
child with her. raking also certain letters, papers,
documents: proof that the Church of All was getting
money-from frightening sources-as "an experiment
in social control."
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