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1) Night Watch
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, renegades and wanderers, freedmen and runaways. Twelve-year-old ConaLee, the adult in her family for as long as she can remember, finds herself on a buckboard journey with her mother, Eliza, who hasn't spoken in more than a year. They arrive at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia, delivered to the hospital's entrance by a war veteran who...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Set during the 1950s in West Virginia and Korea, this is the story of two children--Lark, on the verge of adulthood, and her brother, Termite, a child unable to walk and talk but filled with radiance--who grow up with their mother and aunt while their soldier-father fights for his life during the chaotic early months of the Korean War.
5) MotherKind
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2000. :.
Language
English
Description
In a fictional meditation on marriage, loss, and rebirth, a daughter cares for her terminally ill mother while preparing to give birth to her first child.
