Long Way Home A World War II Novel edition by Cheryl A Head Literature Fiction eBooks
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Georgette Lillian Newton has a predictable future. She will work on the family farm, marry her high school sweetheart and continue the tradition of raising kids and crops in rural North Carolina. But, she yearns to see the exciting places she reads about in Look magazine and infuriates her parents and boyfriend when she joins the exclusive U.S. Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps also known as the WAACS.
LeRoy Dowdell’s sensitive nature makes him a misfit in his family and his community. A brilliant musician, he longs to play in a big band like that of Tommy Dorsey or Duke Ellington. He lies about his age to enlist in the army and escape his disapproving father and the rumors of a small town. He hopes a soldier’s uniform will be his ticket to travel overseas where he can play music and find a place where he feels he belongs.
It is 1943 and America’s involvement in World War II is at its height. The paths of these two young dreamers cross at Fort Huachuca a segregated army base near Tucson, Arizona where they fall in love, fight personal battles and complete their journeys of self discovery. Along the way they interact with an array of dynamic characters.
~PFC Jerome "Pit" Turner is a gregarious Georgia boy and ladies man who becomes LeRoy's best friend. Pit wants to be a war hero, and he would make a good one, but his disillusionment with the army grows as he finds himself stuck stateside carrying a shovel rather than a rifle.
~Sergeant Robert Moses is a spit-and-polish career soldier, disappointed by the second-class treatment of his troops but also tough on his inexperienced and undisciplined recruits--like the flamboyant Pit. When Moses is asked to 'babysit' the Negro members of the symbolic, mixed-race All American Freedom Band rather than train soldiers for combat, Moses begins to question his commitment to the army. And when a secret he carries is revealed, it puts him directly at odds with the army he loves and leads to a violent altercation with Pit.
~Lieutenant Charity Zanjeck is an army brat commanding a division of women soldiers who have a lot to prove to the army and the country. She believes the military is better as a result of the changes World War II forces upon it, and leverages her late father's war hero status to advocate for opportunities for both the WAACS and Negro soldiers.
~Bonaparte Giles is a classically-trained pianist with a big-city persona. When he returns to his small hometown to care for his ailing mother he takes a job as a high school music teacher. There he recognizes LeRoy's tremendous talent and vows to support him in music and in life.
~Captain Hurley is commander at Fort Huachuca and resents his assignment in the remote Arizona desert where half his command includes Negro soldiers and women. He is determined that growing racial tensions on base will not jeopardize his career ambitions but he cannot hide his intolerance for the "colored" soldier.
~Boone Mack is the boy Georgette leaves behind. But when he is drafted as a mechanic for the famous Tuskegee Airmen he arrives-unexpected and uninvited--in Arizona to propose to the girl he calls "Lil".
Nearly a million black soldiers served in WWII but the majority never faced combat. Long Way Home imagines the daily lives of these men and women on the front lines of social change but far away from the battlefield.
Told in first-person narrative by each character, Long Way Home is foremost a love story framed by the culture of 1940's America on the homefront and in the military.
Long Way Home A World War II Novel edition by Cheryl A Head Literature Fiction eBooks
If you want to get a glimpse of what is was like for African Americans during WW ll then this is the book for you. It crosses so many areas, religion, music and race just to name a few. But the book is so much more. I became so immersed in the characters that I forgot this was fiction. The author has a way of making you live the story and the issues she writes about are still present today. So if you want to see what it was like during this time period for African Americans, then read this book.Product details
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Long Way Home A World War II Novel edition by Cheryl A Head Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Untold story of the Females during World War II and the writer did their research. Smooth reading and I recommend the book if you are interested in Females in the military. Some things do not change.
This is a good book, a wonderful story of a great generation and its racial problems. It shows the struggles of youth, no matter the color of skin or sexual preference.
The epilogue ties all lose ends together for a satisfying end.
A very readable novel with an unusual approach to WWII. While the subjects of the novel are African-Americans, the language and experiences are universal. To say more about the plot would be a spoiler, but Cheryl Head has finessed the language, characters and setting.
Sad to read of the problems of the time. A reminder of how it was and to consider, "Have we become measurably
tolerant of those who happen to see things differently and those who are born with a different skin color? Can we say we've grown to a place where we can embrace others for who they are rather than label them?"
This book has numerous interesting characters, most you'll really like and a few who'll make you angry until you finish the novel. Set during WWII at a
training camp in TX, it captures not only the flavor of the area but also the conflicts of the time beyond the war.
As I read, I found myself saying, "Wpw, I didn't see that coming."
This was a well-done book about the social issues during the time of World War II. Though racial tensions and homophobia were woven into the story, the main focus remained on the characters and their growth. In those times, young people left home and did grow immensely while away from all ties to their homes and families. I enjoyed reading about Georgette and Boone, and how they managed such a separation. Great read!
Author Cheryl Head opened a window for me into a world that was completely unfamiliar African American men and women in the Armed Forces during World War II. Issues of race, class, and sexual orientation are handled gracefully and with great compassion. Her characters came alive for me immediately and I appreciated the nuance she brought to her writing. I give a book 5 stars only when, at the end, I say, "I want more!"
If you want to get a glimpse of what is was like for African Americans during WW ll then this is the book for you. It crosses so many areas, religion, music and race just to name a few. But the book is so much more. I became so immersed in the characters that I forgot this was fiction. The author has a way of making you live the story and the issues she writes about are still present today. So if you want to see what it was like during this time period for African Americans, then read this book.
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