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- ISBN
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About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0593875354
ISBN-13
9780593875353
eBay Product ID (ePID)
13072882275
Product Key Features
Book Title
Atomic Hearts : a Novel
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2025
Topic
Coming of Age, Literary
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
18.2 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2025-014952
Reviews
"A nuclear blast to the emotional core . . . Part teenage summer fling, part family tragedy, Megan Cummins's debut is the most exquisitely written, bighearted journey into friendship, addiction, and the frustrations that come with parenting our parents. With sentences sharp enough to cut, dialogue that will make you laugh out loud, and a story that will break your heart open again and again, Atomic Hearts is the kind of novel that will send you scrambling for your phone to call your best friend, your mom, your dad, and let them know how much they matter." --Nick Fuller Googins, author of The Great Transition "Brilliant . . . explores the long path to self-fulfillment, how we discover our place in the world, and what we owe to others along the way. . . . Megan Cummins uncovers the troubling, intricate mystery of human connection, how we survive the worst of it, and sometimes don't. She lays bare how we manage, despite enormous hurdles, to collapse the remote distances between us, and how each of us is a portal to worlds unseen." --Sarah Blakely-Cartwright, author of Alice Sadie Celine "An exquisite first novel about the body's fragility, the spirit's opacity, and the elastic absolution of narrative. Megan Cummins's restless, devoted protagonist--a young writer working toward something like truth in the shadows of her father's addiction, and in friendship's frank light--is the kind of protagonist I'll find myself thinking of years later, as of a good friend: 'I should call Gertie.'" --Rachel Lyon, author of Self-Portrait with Boy and The Fruit of the Dead "A live scroll on love, loyalty, who we are in our wrongdoings, and how we end up with the one we end up with . . . Cummins captures all of her characters in their wide and earnest humanness. This novel sustains the empathy it calls for and reminds us that one need not be a saint to achieve redemption. I closed the book at the end, but my heart was still open." --Sidik Fofana, author of Stories from the Tenants Downstairs, "Gertie is a heroine for the ages--I challenge you to find a reader who doesn't fall in love with her dark humor, her vulnerability, her flaws, or her complicated affection for everyone around her. Atomic Hearts explodes with love and tenderness on every page." --Maria Kuznetsova, author of Something Unbelievable "Heartfelt and harrowing . . . Reading Atomic Hearts feels like getting to crawl inside the mind of a quiet best friend." --Allison Larkin, author of The People We Keep "A nuclear blast to the emotional core . . . Part teenage summer fling, part family tragedy, Megan Cummins's debut is the most exquisitely written, bighearted journey into friendship, addiction, and the frustrations that come with parenting our parents. With sentences sharp enough to cut, dialogue that will make you laugh out loud, and a story that will break your heart open again and again, Atomic Hearts is the kind of novel that will send you scrambling for your phone to call your best friend, your mom, your dad, and let them know how much they matter." --Nick Fuller Googins, author of The Great Transition "[An] impressive debut novel . . . This works equally well as a gritty coming-of-age drama and an insightful story about the nature of writing." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review "This feel quite effortless, mostly through the power of [Cummins's] sharp prose and even sharper insights into, especially, the lives of teenage girls. A promising debut novel about the heavy presence of the past." --Kirkus Review "Brilliant . . . explores the long path to self-fulfillment, how we discover our place in the world, and what we owe to others along the way. . . . Megan Cummins uncovers the troubling, intricate mystery of human connection, how we survive the worst of it, and sometimes don't. She lays bare how we manage, despite enormous hurdles, to collapse the remote distances between us, and how each of us is a portal to worlds unseen." --Sarah Blakely-Cartwright, author of Alice Sadie Celine "A live scroll on love, loyalty, who we are in our wrongdoings, and how we end up with the one we end up with . . . Cummins captures all of her characters in their wide and earnest humanness. This novel sustains the empathy it calls for and reminds us that one need not be a saint to achieve redemption. I closed the book at the end, but my heart was still open." --Sidik Fofana, author of Stories from the Tenants Downstairs "An exquisite first novel about the body's fragility, the spirit's opacity, and the elastic absolution of narrative. Megan Cummins's restless, devoted protagonist--a young writer working toward something like truth in the shadows of her father's addiction, and in friendship's frank light--is the kind of protagonist I'll find myself thinking of years later, as of a good friend: 'I should call Gertie.'" --Rachel Lyon, author of Self-Portrait with Boy and The Fruit of the Dead
Synopsis
"A nuclear blast to the emotional core . . . Part teenage summer fling, part family tragedy, Megan Cummins's debut is the most exquisitely written, bighearted journey into friendship, addiction, and the frustrations that come with parenting our parents."--Nick Fuller Googins, author of The Great Transition I'd been raised on secrets, I knew they weren't a good idea. Sixteen and living in a small Michigan town, Gertie is harboring a secret heavy enough to fracture her closest friendship. She and Cindy have been bonded since birth by the fact their fathers are addicts, and their unsteady home lives are a little easier when they're together, sprawled on a trampoline with pilfered vodka and dreams of moving to New York. Everything was changing so fast. I didn't know what was real. After an accident involving a bonfire and an aerosol canister sends Gertie to the hospital, she finds herself with nowhere to go but to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to live with her newly sober father. She sees it as a chance to escape the hometown drama she's caused, but drama finds her all the same: parties without curfews, boys without boundaries, a compromising photo, tragedy back home . . . and her father, once again teetering on the edge of oblivion. Terrified of the consequences of being honest with Cindy, her sole refuge is the fantasy novel she's writing, a portal to another world and the story of a young girl roaming a strange land, trusting her wits to survive. I had to become a different, stronger person before I'd even figured out who I was in the first place. Years later, when ghosts of the past surface, Gertie decides to write again about that explosive summer from the stabler shores of adulthood. Powered by the fierce imagination of her youth, Gertie finally allows herself the grace to tell a version of her narrative that she always hoped would be true. Written with the feel and power of a ticking time bomb, Atomic Hearts is an unforgettable story of the ways we can be saved by friendship, love, and imagination., "A nuclear blast to the emotional core . . . Part teenage summer fling, part family tragedy, Megan Cummins's debut is the most exquisitely written, bighearted journey into friendship, addiction, and the frustrations that come with parenting our parents."--Nick Fuller Googins, author of The Great Transition I'd been raised on secrets, I knew they weren't a good idea. Sixteen and living in a small Michigan town, Gertie is harboring a secret heavy enough to fracture her closest friendship. She and Cindy have been bonded since birth by the fact their fathers are addicts, and their unsteady home lives are a little easier when they're together, sprawled on a trampoline with pilfered vodka and dreams of moving to New York. Everything was changing so fast. I didn't know what was real. After an accident involving a bonfire and an aerosol canister sends Gertie to the hospital, she finds herself with nowhere to go but to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to live with her newly sober father. She sees it as a chance to escape the hometown drama she's caused, but drama finds her all the same: parties without curfews, boys without boundaries, a compromising photo, tragedy back home . . . and her father, once again teetering on the edge of oblivion. Terrified of the consequences of being honest with Cindy, her sole refuge is the fantasy novel she's writing, a portal to another world and the story of a young girl roaming a strange land, trusting her wits to survive. I had to become a different, stronger person before I'd even figured out who I was in the first place. Years later, when ghosts of the past surface, Gertie decides to write again about that explosive summer from the stabler shores of adulthood. Powered by the fierce imagination of her youth, Gertie finally allows herself the grace to tell a version of her narrative that she always hoped would be true. Written with the feeling and power of a ticking time bomb, Atomic Hearts is an unforgettable story of the relationships that shape us beyond all reason and the ways it might be possible to pull ourselves back from the brink.
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PS3603.U66333A93
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