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July 4, 2012 | History

Face the Winter Naked 2 editions

By Bonnie Turner
Cover of: Face the Winter Naked by Bonnie Turner
About the Book

Daniel Tomelin, a battle-worn veteran haunted by the carnage of the First World War, deserts his family in the Great Depression and goes on the road to seek relief from his soul-shaking trauma. He's too proud to return and face his loving wife without a job, but LaDaisy is determined to care for their family alone, if that's what it takes. After leaving his loved ones to cope with a hell he helped create, does Daniel dare show his face again? Sometimes LaDaisy feels like killing him.

FACE THE WINTER NAKED is a story for today's struggling economy and unemployed citizens, set in a tragic era when hope was sometimes all they had.

"Bonnie Turner's Face the Winter Naked is set during the Great Depression, but her story encompasses issues that reach far beyond that era and know no time constraints: War. Political strife. Economic collapse. Environmental catastrophe. Division of families. Cruelty and oppression. Poverty, inequity, and all the faces of prejudice. But it is also about love. And faith. And strength. And hope, forgiveness, and perseverance.

Face the Winter Naked provides an engrossing read in which Turner interweaves history, geography, and a compelling love story. More than that, it is a story that looks beyond the surface, delving into the inner workings of the human mind, a powerful narrative that illuminates larger issues of humanity that are timeless and volatile and just as apropos today as decades ago." ~ Karen Donley-Hayes, M.A.I.S., author and editor

"FACE THE WINTER NAKED is a gorgeously written and evocative novel of an earlier economic crisis: the Great Depression. Readers looking for a stunning read, intelligent and emotional on every level, will not be disappointed." ~ Lauren Baratz-Logsted, author of Crazy Beautiful and The Education of Bet

Subjects
Great Depression, 1932, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Adult Fiction, World War 1, the Great War, poverty, unemployment, abandonment, Missouri, railroads, freight hopping, hoboes, PTSD, nightmares, post traumatic stress disorder, flashbacks, hillbillies
People
Herbert Hoover, FDR, Franklin D. Roosevelt
Places
Independence Missouri, Springfield MO, Kansas City MO, St Louis MO, France, the Ozarks, Shepherd of the Hills, New Madrid MO
Times
1932, Great Depression

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2 editions First published in 2010

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Cover of: Face the Winter Naked
2010, Amazon Digital Services
Face the Winter Naked
in English
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2010, Lulu Enterprises, Inc.
Face the Winter Naked
Trade Paperback in English

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July 4, 2012 Edited by Bonnie Turner Edited without comment.
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July 3, 2012 Edited by Bonnie Turner Edited without comment.
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