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Little A
August 2017
On Sale: August 1, 2017
334 pages
ISBN: 1503941477
EAN: 9781503941472
Kindle: B01LH2GQ9I
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Historical
With characters depicted in precise detail and wide
panorama—a kept-woman’s parlor, a contentious interracial
baseball game on the Fourth of July, and the tragic true
events of the Omaha Race Riot of 1919—Kings of Broken
Things reveals the folly of human nature in an era of
astonishing ambition. During the waning days of World War I, three lost souls find
themselves adrift in Omaha, Nebraska, at a time of
unprecedented nationalism, xenophobia, and political
corruption. Adolescent European refugee Karel Miihlstein’s
life is transformed after neighborhood boys discover his
prodigious natural talent for baseball. Jake Strauss, a
young man with a violent past and desperate for a second
chance, is drawn into a criminal underworld. Evie Chambers,
a kept woman, is trying to make ends meet and looking every
which way to escape her cheerless existence. As wounded soldiers return from the front and black migrant
workers move north in search of economic opportunity, the
immigrant wards of Omaha become a tinderbox of racial
resentment stoked by unscrupulous politicians. Punctuated by
an unspeakable act of mob violence, the fates of Karel,
Jake, and Evie will become inexorably entangled with the
schemes of a ruthless political boss whose will to power
knows no bounds. Written in the tradition of Don DeLillo and Colum McCann,
with a great debt to Ralph Ellison, Theodore Wheeler’s debut
novel Kings of Broken Things is a panoramic view of a
city on the brink of implosion during the course of this
summer of strife.
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