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Kensington
August 2016
On Sale: July 26, 2016
304 pages
ISBN: 1496702492
EAN: 9781496702494
Kindle: B017G7HE44
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Historical
From Pushcart Prize nominee Danny Johnson comes a powerful,
lyrical debut novel that explores race relations, first
love, and coming-of-age in North Carolina in the 1950s and
'60s. At eight years old, Raeford "Junebug" Hurley has known more
than his share of hard lessons. After the sudden death of
his parents, he goes to live with his grandparents on a farm
surrounded by tobacco fields and lonesome woods. There he
meets Fancy Stroud and her twin brother, Lightning, the
children of black sharecroppers on a neighboring farm. As
years pass, the friendship between Junebug and bright,
compassionate Fancy takes on a deeper intensity. Junebug,
aware of all the ways in which he and Fancy are more alike
than different, habitually bucks against the casual bigotry
that surrounds them--dangerous in a community ruled by the
Klan. On the brink of adulthood, Junebug is drawn into a
moneymaking scheme that goes awry--and leaves him with a
dark secret he must keep from those he loves. And as Fancy,
tired of saying yes'um and living scared, tries to find her
place in the world, Junebug embarks on a journey that will
take him through loss and war toward a hard-won understanding. At once tender and unflinching, The Last Road Home
delves deep into the gritty, violent realities of the
South's turbulent past, yet evokes the universal hunger for
belonging.
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