A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart She has fled to the

She has fled to the California high desert to escape a cloud of sorrow—for both her father in the ICU and a husband whose illness is worsening

It is a story of the American west written in blood

Three intellectuals find themselves paralyzed by anxiety and fear

of the quest to find one’s tribe and one’s calling

intellectually curious third generation Bronxite steeped in Black literature and power

A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart She has fled to theHardcover, like new An expansive and poignant novel of love, radical ambition, and intellectual rebirth set at the dawn of World War I At a party near Stanford Universitys campus in 1917, Cora Trent, a graduate student raised in the rugged mining towns of the American West, meets Indra Mukherjee, an Indian revolutionary newly arrived in California. Indra is grieving the recent loss of a friend and unsure of the place violence has in the cause of