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David Treuer: Prudence (2015, Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning)

399 pages

English language

Published April 4, 2015 by Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning.

ISBN:
978-1-4104-8121-4
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On a sweltering day in August 1942, Frankie Washburn returns to his family's rustic Minnesota resort for one last visit before he joins the war as a bombardier, headed for the darkened skies over Europe. Awaiting him at the Pines are those he's about to leave behind: his hovering mother; the distant father to whom he's been a disappointment; the Indian caretaker who's been more of a father to him than his own; and Billy, the childhood friend who over the years has become something much more intimate. But before the homecoming can be celebrated, the search for a German soldier, escaped from the POW camp across the river, explodes in a shocking act of violence, with consequences that will reverberate years into the future for all of them and that will shape how each of them makes sense of their lives.

3 editions

Subjects

  • Large type books
  • Fiction
  • Families
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • Social life and customs

Places

  • United States
  • Minnesota
  • Leech Lake Indian Reservation (Minn.)