* TearJerker: [[spoiler:The implication in the end of the book, that based on the book page that Carol & Bobby received, that Ted's last message to Carol was to tell her to keep being strong as he let her know that her college love Peter is dead. How else could Ted have gotten Peter's book with the message she had written?]]
* SlowPacedBeginning: While the first novella isn't boring, the themes about Vietnam's effects and the Baby Boomer's failure to make real social change don't begin to appear until the second story ("Hearts in Atlantis").