A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart: A Novel

Named a Summer Read by: New York Times * Los Angeles Times * Minneapolis Star Tribune * The Millions

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 University’s campus in 1917, Cora Trent, a graduate student raised in the rugged mining towns of the American West, meets Indra Mukherjee, an Indian revolutionary and freedom fighter newly arrived in California. Indra is grieving the recent loss of a frien...