A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart a cartoonist named Alison Bechdel

a cartoonist named Alison Bechdel

and essential—and a vision we all need now

a graduate student raised in the rugged mining towns of the American West

and finding your place in the world

Which is exactly what he needs when his wife passes away to parse meaning out of a world that no longer makes sense

A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart a cartoonist named Alison BechdelHardcover, 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