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Author Lindsey, Odie, author.

Title Some go home : a novel / Odie Lindsey.

Publication Info. New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2020]
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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Adult Fiction  FICTION LINDSEY    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Adult Fiction  F LINDSEY    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  LINDSEY, ODIE    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  F LINDSEY, O.    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Adult Fiction  FIC LINDSEY    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  FIC LINDSEY    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Adult Fiction  F LINDSEY, ODIE    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Adult Fiction  F LINDSEY ODIE    Check Shelf
 Windsor Locks Public Library - Adult Department  LINDSEY    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  F-LINDSEY    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 295 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 295).
Summary "Following three generations in a small southern town, Some Go Home is a searing debut novel of class, race, place, and past. Colleen is an Iraq-war-veteran-turned-Pitchlynn, Mississippi-homemaker, and she works hard to keep her deployment behind her -- until her pregnancy churns up trauma so acute it threatens her husband, her family, and herself. Magnifying her anxiety is the media frenzy surrounding the retrial of Colleen's father-in-law, Hare Hobbs, for a Civil Rights-era murder. As the trial draws nearer, the question of Hare's guilt grows to implicate the town of Pitchlynn itself, echoing even to Chicago and beyond: places where the tensions of class and race -- tied always to land and who can call it their own -- seem as alive now as they were when the murder was committed. As Colleen struggles to sustain herself, and to prepare for the impact of her homeplace on her children, Hare waits in his cell and strikes up a tenuous friendship with Doc, the corrections officer whose life has been forever altered by the crime. And looming just off-radar is an unnamed pilot, a man with information that may shift the trial and its fallout. Twisting together individual and collective history on the land that pulls them apart, Some Go Home is a richly textured, explosive depiction of both the American South, and our larger cultural legacy." -- Provided by publisher.
Subject Women veterans -- Fiction.
Psychic trauma -- Fiction.
Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Trials (Murder) -- Mississippi -- Fiction.
Mississippi -- Fiction.
Trials (Murder) (OCoLC)fst01156368
Veterans. (OCoLC)fst01165710
Mississippi. (OCoLC)fst01207034
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Domestic fiction.
ISBN 9780393249521 (hardcover)
0393249522 (hardcover)
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