Note to reviewers: On July 16, 1945, the first atomic bomb exploded at Trinity Site, which is now a national historic landmark. The publisher requests that reviews of Trinity Fields be timed on or around July 17 to mark the anniversary of the Trinity Test, the Manhattan Project, and the generation of the first site ever referred to as Ground Zero. For more information about the author's research and connection to the site, read his essay, The Road to Trinity.

About Trinity Fields:

Two Los Alamos boys forge a friendship in the shadow of their parents' history-changing work developing nuclear weapons

In many ways, Los Alamos is an ideal place for best friends Brice McCarthyand Kip Calder to grow up. There's wilderness to explore; brilliant andfascinating people, including their own parents and neighbors; and a booming wartime economy. Still, the town was built for one purpose: to manufacture a weapon capable of total annihilation. As the two boys growand the United States enters the Vietnam War, the psychic fallout of their parents' deeds pushes Brice and Kip toward opposite sides in the conflict-one, a soldier; the other, an antiwar activist-even as they come to love the same woman.

Trinity Fields is a sweeping saga of American life in the atomic age that brilliantly illuminates the soul of a nation.

About Bradford Morrow:

Bradford Morrow is an award-winning novelist, short story writer, editor, and author of children's books. He grew up in Colorado and traveled extensively before settling in New York and launching the renowned literary journal Conjunctions. His novel The Almanac Branch was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and for Trinity Fields,Morrow was the recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Academy Award in Literature. He has garnered numerous other accolades for his fiction, including O. Henry and Pushcart prizes, as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship. Morrow is a professor of literature and Bard Center Fellow at Bard College.