COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Nishant Batsha’s novel, A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart, was published by ecco/HarperCollins on July 1st, 2025.
“An expansive and poignant novel of love, radical ambition, and intellectual rebirth set at the dawn of World War I, A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart is an extraordinary story of a marriage caught at the intersection of radical politics and everyday life.”
This project received recognition as a previous COURAGE to WRITE finalist, so it’s exciting to see it come into fruition.