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Innocence, experience, truth, deceit, loss, and recovery are at the core of these five interconnected, sequential tales-each deeply rooted in the 1960s, and each scarred by the Vietnam War, which continues to cast its shadow over American lives, politics

In Part One, “Low Men in Yellow Coats,” eleven-year old Bobby Garfield discovers a world of predatory malice in his own neighborhood. He also discovers that adults are sometimes not rescuers but at the heart of terror.

In the title story, a bunch of college kids get hooked on a card game, discover the possibility to protest, and confront their own collective heart of darkness, where laughter may be no more than thinly disguised cry of the beast.

In “Blind Willie” and “Why We’re in Vietnam,” two men who grew up with Bobby in suburban Connecticut try to fill the emptiness of the post-Vietnam era in an America which sometimes seems as hollow- and as a haunted-as their own lives.

And in “Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling.” This remarkable book’s denouement, Bobby returns to his hometown where one final secret, the hope if redemption, and his heart’s desire may await him.

Full of danger and suspense, full of heart, this spellbinding fiction will take some readers to a place they have never been…and other to a place they have never been able to completely forget. Nearly twenty years after it’s first publication. Hearts in Atlantis is powerful and astonishingly current.