Some Go Home by Odie Lindsey
An Iraq War veteran turned small-town homemaker, Colleen works hard to keep her deployment behind her—until pregnancy brings her buried trauma to the surface. She hides her mounting anxiety from her husband, Derby, who is in turn preoccupied with the retrial of his father, Hare Hobbs, for a decades-old, civil rights–era murder. Colleen and Derby’s community, including the descendants of the murder victim, still grapple with the fallout; corrections officer Doc and his wife, Jessica, have built their life in the shadow of this violent act. As a media frenzy builds, questions of Hare’s guilt—and of the townsfolks’ potential complicity in the crime—only magnify the ever-present tensions of class and race, tied always to the land and who can call it their own. At the center of these lingering questions is Wallis House, an antebellum estate that has recently passed to new hands. A brick-and-mortar representation of a town trying to erase its past, Wallis House is both the jewel of a gentrifying 2010s Pitchlynn, and the scene of the 1964 murder itself. When fresh violence erupts on the property grounds, the battle between old Pitchlynn and new, between memorial site and moving on, forces a reckoning and irreparable loss. Some Go Home twists together personal and collective history, binding north Mississippi to northside Chicago, in a richly textured, explosive depiction of both the American South and our larger cultural legacy.
"A polished debut novel…[Some Go Home] captures the divided identity of the new South" -- New York Times Book Review
"Some Go Home has the grit, power, and soul of Janis Joplin and the hardscrabble depth of Johnny Cash…This novel is nothing short of thrilling." -- Randall Kenan
"[A] charismatic debut…[As with] Jesmyn Ward’s Bois Sauvage [and] William Faulkner’s Jefferson…Pitchlynn is a vital new locale on that Mississippi map." -- Jonathan Miles - Garden and Gun
"Some Go Home has the grit, power, and soul of Janis Joplin and the hardscrabble depth of Johnny Cash…This novel is nothing short of thrilling." -- Randall Kenan
"[A] charismatic debut…[As with] Jesmyn Ward’s Bois Sauvage [and] William Faulkner’s Jefferson…Pitchlynn is a vital new locale on that Mississippi map." -- Jonathan Miles - Garden and Gun
Odie Lindsey is the author of We Come to Our Senses: Stories. He received an NEA Fellowship for combat veterans and is writer-in-residence at Vanderbilt University’s Center for Medicine, Health, and Society. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780393867473 |
| ISBN 10 | 0393867471 |
| Titel | Some Go Home |
| Autor | Odie Lindsey |
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| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | WW Norton & Co |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2021-07-30 |
| Seitenanzahl | 320 |
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