The Martyrs, The Lovers circles the mysteries surrounding Jutta Carroll's death--probing her origin story, the rise to personal political stardom, and the fall into anxiety and public decline--all the while exploring the forces and motivations that drive political passion and activism, and the counterforces, material and psychological, that constantly threaten progress.

The Martyrs, The Lovers is loosely based on the life and 1992 death of the German Green Party founder and activist Petra Kelly with her partner Gerd Bastien. The challenges to environment, peace, justice, and feminism that informed these lives and deaths--in the world of the fiction and in reality--challenge us more than ever today.

Exquisitely written, in thoughtful and poetic language, The Martyrs, The Lovers is a book whose characters and contemplations will stay with you long after you have finished reading.