The Year That Changed Everything

Gordon Hayes

An African American youngster stabs Seamus Kelly on a New York subway. Neurosurgeons placed him in an induced coma. His wife, Jenny, reads aloud stories of both Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, killed by assassins’ bullets; Paris students rising; Prague crushed; Columbia University occupied; Biafra starved; Chicago burning. The result is both a portrait of a marriage tested by silence and devotion, and a sweeping reimagining of 1968 as seen through eyes on the ground.

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