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It really is 1967, so when America's allies hesitate over whether to send more troops to Vietnam, and the strains of "All You Need is Love" echo from Abbey Road, students try the streets of Wellington, New Zealand, to protest the war. Among them are Race, Candy, Chadwick, and FitzGerald, and their elusive, electrifying friend Morgan Tawhai. They are young and hopeful, and the earth is all before them. Forty years later, in Washington, DC, Race's boy Toby is navigating his own path across a surroundings still trembling with the reverberations of 9/11. Uncertain whether love is absolutely all he needs, Toby, along with his girlfriend JoJo, pieces the centuries-old fragments of an comet fall over the sky while America secretly starts likely to invade Iraq. As Competition and his companions move through the first ten years of the new millennium, their friendships tested and pulled aside and reconfigured anew, they come to discover that Morgan - who burned as brightly as any comet, who could estimate Shakespeare and Sterne, The Iliad and Bob Dylan, and who'll forever remain the 20-year-old they once realized - is both the enigma and the touchstone with their lives. From the shores of New Zealand to the politics heart of Washington, and also to the hillsides above Beirut, Some Here Among Us is a sensational meditation on youth and guarantee and loss. It really is a book for our times.
