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Dan's father was haunted all his life by World War I flashbacks, and recently committed suicide. Now Dan is 18 in 1943 Mississippi, and looking forward to enlisting in the army. His war-traumatized pal Marty has been relocated from Europe to guard German POWs at a nearby camp. And L.C., the African-American Dan works with, has no intention of fighting a war for a country that treats him like a second-class citizen. As these three young men, and the other people in this small farming community, react in their own ways to the war abroad, violence and racism are simmering just below the surface, until they explode.
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"Stark, haunting....Philosophically troubling, artistically thrilling, and thoroughly impressive." - (Kirkus, 11/15/03)
"Without neglecting the requisite small-town stragglers in this richly populous novel...Yarbrough writes with quiet compassion about Loring's black population, its reluctance to fight for a country that has so consistently betrayed its democratic promise." - E. V. Araullo (New York Times Book Review, 2/8/04)
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