| Edition |
1st pbk. ed. |
| Description |
339 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Study Program |
AR UG RL 5.1 PTS 12 131237EN PHS. |
| Note |
Alex Awards 2008 |
| Indexed In: |
Wilson's Senior High School, January 2009 |
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Wilson's Fiction, March 2009 |
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Library Journal Starred, December 2007 |
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Booklist starred, November 2007 |
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Publisher's Weekly, November 2007 |
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Kirkus Review, January 2008 |
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Multicultural Review, December 2008 |
| Summary |
The shaky marriage between Henry McAllan and his city-bred wife Laura becomes even more unstable when his brother Jamie returns from World War II in 1946 to help work the family's miserable cotton farm in the Mississippi Delta, along with his comrade-in-arms Ronsel Jackson, the oldest son of local sharecroppers, who soon learns that his heroics in battle mean nothing in the Jim Crow south. |
| Audience |
Adult Follett Library Resources |
| Awards |
Alex Award, 2009 |
| Subject |
Farm life -- Mississippi -- Fiction.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Fiction.
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Veterans -- Fiction.
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African Americans -- Fiction.
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Race relations -- Mississippi -- Fiction.
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| ISBN |
1565126777 |
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