![]() ![]() Agent: Janelle Walden Agyeman, Marie Brown Assoc. ![]() While remaining true to his characters, Pitts brings the story lines to realistic conclusions even as he holds out hope for the future, resulting in a polished, affecting novel. George endures horrific conditions in the Pacific as Thelma faces growing racial hostility at work, culminating in a brutal moment of violence that compels her to make a difficult decision. Summary: Pulitzer-winning journalist and bestselling novelist (Freeman) Leonard Pitts, Jr.s new historical page-turner is a great American tale of. Luther, deciding this is a white man’s war, tries to evade the draft but ends up serving with a tank battalion in Europe. ![]() George and Thelma begin a correspondence after he returns to active duty she takes a job in a shipyard. She and her brother, Luther Hayes, a bitter alcoholic, are living with the memory of their parents’ lynching 20 years earlier. ![]() Eric dies, and while George recuperates, he pays a condolence call on Eric’s widow, Thelma. Marine Private George Simon-wealthy, religious, white-survives the sinking of his ship because Eric Gordy, a black messman, rescues him. Pitts (Grant Park), a Pulitzer Prize-winning Miami Herald journalist, vividly depicts the devastating effects of racism and classism in the Jim Crow South. It centers on a trio of finely drawn characters, two black and one white, all from Alabama, whose worlds collide because of Pearl Harbor. Pitts ( Grant Park), a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, turns again to America’s fraught history of race relations in this unflinching, gritty WWII saga. ![]()
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