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Eat the Document by Dana Spiotta follows Mary Whittaker, who adopts a new identity as Louise Barrot after a botched bombing in the Vietnam era, and her former partner, Bobby DeSoto, now Nash, as they navigate the complexities of living with secret pasts. Set between the early 1970s and late 1990s, the novel explores themes of reinvention, isolation, and the enduring impact of one's history through the perspectives of Mary, her son Jason, Bobby, and others.