On August 9, 1945, at 9:15 a.m., our make-believe world ceased to exist -- the thunder that destroyed Hiroshima like the clicking of red slippers that sent us back to Kansas, ending our childhood forever.The Last Days of Summer takes place in Kansas, in that summer. It is about a chubby 9-year-old whose parents ignore him so persistently he has stopped talking. A psychiatrist suggests sending him back to the town of his birth - the last place he was...