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Fascinating! I know about the Patty Hearst kidnapping because I worked for Hearst for a bit and everyone I would tell where I worked who were of a certain age would always mention it so I was interested in learning more about it. I felt the author did a really good job making Patty entirely relatable and sympathetic so you could really try to get in to what she was pulled into and how that would alter her, but without any obvious conclusion and staying fairly neutral in reporting the events as they happened. Well except when it comes to her ex - that dude was a sleaze, pretty objectively. This story is a great example of a story where people want to say "Well, was she brainwashed or not?!" but it's not at all that simple and the author was comfortable with this ambiguity and didn't try to force it into a one-sided narrative. I've heard this author has some history of not writing women well, but I felt he treated Patty with fairness and respect.