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Bloomsbury USA
February 2015
On Sale: February 3, 2015
288 pages
ISBN: 1620408422
EAN: 9781620408421
Kindle: B00OH5O17W
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Mystery
It is 1967, and as America's allies hesitate over whether to
send more troops to Vietnam and the strains of 'All You Need
is Love' echo from Abbey Road, students take to the streets
of Wellington, New Zealand, to protest the war. Among them
are Race, Candy, Chadwick and FitzGerald and their elusive,
electrifying friend Morgan Tawhai. They are young and
hopeful and the world is all before them. Forty years later, in Washington DC, Race's son Toby is
navigating his own path across a landscape still trembling
with the reverberations of 9/11. Uncertain whether love is
really all he needs, Toby, along with his girlfriend JoJo,
watches the centuries-old fragments of a comet fall across
the sky while America secretly begins planning to invade Iraq. As Race and his companions move through the first decade of
the new millennium, their friendships tested and pulled
apart and reconfigured anew, they come to discover that
Morgan – who burned as brightly as any comet, who could
quote Shakespeare and Sterne, The Iliad and Bob
Dylan, and who will forever remain the twenty-year-old they
once knew – is both the mystery and the touchstone of their
lives. From the shores of New Zealand to the political heart of
Washington and to the hills above Beirut, Some Here Among
Us is a stunning meditation on youth and promise and
loss. It is a novel for our times.
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