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Delta
November 0000
On Sale: December 28, 2004
288 pages
ISBN: 0385338139
EAN: 9780385338134
Trade Size (reprint)
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Women's Fiction
The love of family. The heartbreak of war. The triumph of
coming home.
1940. Rural Wisconsin. Sixteen-year-old
Earl “Earwig” Gunderman is not like other boys his age.
Fiercely protected by his older brother, Earwig sees his
town and the world around him through the prism of his own
unique understanding. He sees his mother’s sadness and his
father’s growing solitude. He sees his brother, Jimmy,
falling in love with the most beautiful girl in town. And
while Earwig is unable to make change for customers at his
family’s store, he is singularly well suited to understand
what other people in his town cannot: that life as they know
it is about to change; the coming war will touch them all.
For Jimmy will enlist in the military. And Earwig
will watch his parents’ marriage buckle under the strain of
a family secret. And when Jimmy returns–a fractured shadow
of his former self–it is Earwig’s turn to care for him. His
struggles to right the wrongs visited upon his revered older
brother by war, women, and life are at once heartwarming and
riotously funny. Their family and town irrevocably altered,
Earwig and Jimmy fight to find their own places in a world
changed forever.
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