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Between 1951 and 1962 the Atomic Energy Commission triggered some one hundred atmospheric detonations of nuclear weapons at the Nevada Test Site. U.S. military troops who participated in these tests were exposed to high doses of radiation. Among them was a young Marine named Leonard Bird. In Folding Paper Cranes Bird juxtaposes his devastating experience of those atomic exercises with three visits over his lifetime one in the 1950s before his Nevada assignment, one in 1981, and one in the early 1990s to the International Park for World Peace in Hiroshima.
Among the monuments to tragedy...

In this revisionist novel based upon the Spanish-American War, two groups, one Cuban and one American, fight through despair and delusion toward hope and reconciliation. Central to the story is the plight; of the Cuban rebels; the still mysterious destruction of the USS Maine; the American response and, for Cuba, a tragic victory.