First published 2012
Frank Money comes home shattered. After surviving the brutal Korean War, he receives an urgent message about his sister Cee's desperate condition. Traveling back to Georgia, Frank confronts the racial violence and family trauma that he fled years before. His mission becomes rescuing Cee from a dangerous medical situation that threatens her life and future. With nothing but his war-hardened determination and fragile hope, Frank must reconstruct the broken pieces of his family and himself.
Genres: literary-fiction, american-fiction, historical-fiction, 20th-century, african-american, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, reconstruction
Setting: United States
Period: 19th-Century
147 pages · Hardcover · Knopf
Content warnings: violence, war