Revolt of the Moles, by Alan Tongret. TongretARTS, 2021. Paperback, 353 pp. Fiction. College professors Sam and Jenny Ashlar retire to a once bucolic village where they’re besieged by their neighbors’ noisy lawn-care crews, dirt-bikes, retro rap music, and pool partying. The Ashlars respond by sculpting mole totems from a massive dead tree with a wake-the-dead chainsaw -- unleashing a rampaging Noise War, which they win with courage and ingenuity. This book reminds us that civility is indispensable to the good life, and that humanity might be damned if it does what’s right, but doubly damned if it doesn’t.