New York, N.Y. Viking Press, 2015. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. xix, [3],389, [5] pages. Illustrations. Includes Preface, A Note on Japanese Names and Terms, Prologue, Chapter 1: Convergence; Chapter 2: Flashpoint; Chapter 3: Embers; Chapter 4: Exposed; Chapter 5: Time suspended; Chapter 6: Emergence; Chapter 7: Afterlife; Chapter 8: Against Forgetting; Chapter 9: Gaman. Also includes Acknowledgments, Notes, Hibakusha Sources and Selected Bibliography, and Index. Also contains 2 black and white maps: one of Japan today, and one of Nagasaki 1945, showing the scope of Atomic Bomb Damage. Susan Southard is an American non-fiction writer. She won the 2016 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, for her book Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War. Southard graduated from Antioch University, Los Angeles, with an MFA in creative writing. She has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Politico, and Lapham’s Quarterly. For much of the world, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki represented an end to a long and costly global war. But for tens of thousands of survivors who barely escaped death beneath the mushroom cloud, their new lives as hibakusha (atomic bomb affected people) had just begun. The author spent more than a decade researching and interviewing hibakusha and atomic bomb historians, physicians, and specialists to reconstruct the days, months, and years after the bombing. Using powerful eyewitness accounts, the author unveils the neglected story of the enduring impact of nuclear war. More