In the Shadow of War
Patrick M Garry
Publisher
Inkwater Press
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Glen Kinsella, a recent high school graduate, has just finished opening all the cards proclaiming that he is on the doorstep of an exciting life. But in the summer of 1970, Glen is living with his naive grandfather and an array of desperate residents in a Midwestern prairie town that has withered to near-extinction – populated primarily by the sagging shells of long-abandoned houses. Hope is not one of Glen’s traits. In high school, he was known as the retard’s brother. He never had a date, and had never even been on speaking terms with someone as sophisticated as Suzanne. But as his grandfather had always said, anything was possible in Corcoran. And in the summer of 1970, even if fleeting, the implausible becomes the real. After decades of waiting for the revival of his beloved town, Glen’s grandfather convinces a group of women whose husbands have been sent to Vietnam to live in Corcoran. They begin renovating an old ballroom, where Suzanne will perform for the grand opening. But all this new life is threatened when a disgraced war vet arrives, harboring a secret about one of the husbands that thrusts the town into the center of political controversy.
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