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When Frank Money joined the army to escape his too-small world, he left behind his cherished and fragile little sitter, Cee. After the war, his shattered life has no purpose until he hears that Cee is in danger. Frank is a modern day Odysseus returning to a 1950s America mined with lethal pitfalls for an unwary black man. As he journeys to his native Georgia in search of Cee, it becomes clear that their troubles began well before their wartime separation. Together, they must return to their rural hometown of Lotus, where buried secrets are unearthed and where Frank learns at last what it means to be a man, heal, and - above all- what it means to come home"--Page 2 of cover.
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Fiction, African American veterans, African Americans, Brothers and sisters, FICTION / Literary, Veterans, Quests (Expeditions), Racism, Korean War, 1950-1953, Veterans, fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Brothers and sisters, fiction, Georgia, fiction, African americans, fiction, Korean war, 1950-1953, fiction, Fiction, historical, African American troops, Segregation, Armed Forces, United States. Army, United States, nyt:hardcover-fiction=2012-05-27, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, historical, general, Human experimentation in medicine, Homecoming, Literary, Roman, Amerikanisches Englisch, Siblings, Noirs américains, Romans, nouvelles, Anciens combattants noirs américains, Frères et sœurs, Anciens combattants, Quête, Racisme, Guerre de Corée, 1950-1953, War, Korean War (1950-1953) fast (OCoLC)fst00988609Places
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America’s most celebrated novelist, Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison extends her profound take on our history with this twentieth-century tale of redemption: a taut and tortured story about one man’s desperate search for himself in a world disfigured by war.
Frank Money is an angry, self-loathing veteran of the Korean War who, after traumatic experiences on the front lines, finds himself back in racist America with more than just physical scars. His home may seem alien to him, but he is shocked out of his crippling apathy by the need to rescue his medically abused younger sister and take her back to the small Georgia town they come from and that he’s hated all his life. As Frank revisits his memories from childhood and the war that have left him questioning his sense of self, he discovers a profound courage he had thought he could never possess again.
A deeply moving novel about an apparently defeated man finding his manhood—and his home. -From Amazon.com
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