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"A few days before he turns eighteen in 1968, a tragic event eliminates Noble Norfleet's family. With no close relatives to turn to, he stays with the old black woman who tended his childhood; and he throws himself recklessly into a love affair with his high-school Spanish teacher, a woman whose husband is away in Vietnam. Stunned and baffled by the onset of visions, he seeks guidance from his mother's Christian minister, only to find himself tangled in a thicket of another sort.". "When Noble graduates in the turbulent spring of the murders of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, he…
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2 editions- Paperback · English · 2003Scribner · 320 pages · 9780743204187
- Other · English · 2002Scribner · 307 pages · 9780743204170
Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975Mothers and sonsDeathVietnam War, 1961-1975Brothers and sistersChildren of prisonersParent and adult childFiction




