
1941: in a segregated Florida small town, three young black friends enlisted to fight. Back home, Cora struggles to keep her family afloat whilst consumed with worry about her brother Benny, best friend Roscoe and childhood sweetheart Lee. Engulfed by the war, the boys she knew return as men she barely recognises.
- Genres
- Historical
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Bantam Press
- ISBN
- 9780857507754
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