In 1964, after the assassination of Fidel Castro and "The Destruction" that led to the annihilation of much of the East Coast, President Kennedy moves the nation's capital to Wichita, Kansas, where Robert works as a copywriter for the ad agency Batton, Bumstead, Durstine, and Osborn. Hoping to receive the permission of Norman Mailer to join an exclusive writers colony in the besieged city of Estonia (formerly Easton), Pennsylvania, Robert, haunted...