The Atomic Hamburger

About the Book

The Boyers, a sheepherding family in Idaho decide to move into the fast food business when the Federal lands they used to graze their sheep are turned into a Federal nuclear energy research center. Hence the name of their diner, The Atomic Hamburger. Hoping to become rich with the expected economic boom of the nuclear research facility, their diner becomes the main place where the characters meet and interact. A young man, Howard McCracken, after the suicide of his mother, decides to become a psychiatrist and he ends up on the front-lines of World War II working under General Patton Two young nuclear scientists mentored by Einstein go to Idaho to work in the nuclear research facilities and end up lunching at The Atomic Hamburger and... The novel focuses on the war periods of World War II, Korea and Vietnam as it follows several families from the 1920´s through the 1970´s while it explores mental disorders and posttraumattic stress as it relates to combat experience and other situations and their relations to suicide.

About the Author

Federico Sanchez Seabrook was born (1951) and raised in Mexico City. He graduated as a Mechanical Engineer from Tufts University in 1975. For the most part he has run his own businesses as varied as silk screening, a cement block company, a grinding plant for nonmetallic minerals. Since 1987 he runs a design, manufacturing, wholesale and retail business of sterling silver accessories, Pat Areias Sterling, with his wife Pat. Since the death of his son Mitchell in 2002, he has studied the problem of how the brain works in general and suicide in particular. He lives in Carmel, California.