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Carry Me Home

A Novel

Sandra Kring

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English
Random House USA Inc
28 December 2004
The love of family. The heartbreak of war. The triumph of coming home.

1940. Rural

Wisconsin. Sixteen-year-old Earl ""Earwig"" Gunderman is not like other boys his age.

Fiercely protected by his older brother, Earwig sees his town and the world around

him through the prism of his own unique understanding. He sees his mother's sadness

and his father's growing solitude. He sees his brother, Jimmy, falling in love with

the most beautiful girl in town. And while Earwig is unable to make change for customers

at his family's store, he is singularly well suited to understand what other people

in his town cannot- that life as they know it is about to change; the coming war

will touch them all.

For Jimmy will enlist in the military. And Earwig will watch

his parents' marriage buckle under the strain of a family secret. And when Jimmy

returns-a fractured shadow of his former self-it is Earwig's turn to care for him.

His struggles to right the wrongs visited upon his revered older brother by war,

women, and life are at once heartwarming and riotously funny. Their family and town

irrevocably altered, Earwig and Jimmy fight to find their own places in a world changed

forever.
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Imprint:   Random House USA Inc
Dimensions:   Height: 210mm,  Width: 130mm,  Spine: 15mm
Weight:   233g
ISBN:   9780385338134
ISBN 10:   0385338139
Pages:   288
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Sandra Kring lives in the north woods of Wisconsin. She has run support groups and workshops for adult survivors of trauma. Carry Me Home is her first novel.

Reviews for Carry Me Home: A Novel

Heartfelt.... Strong characters, a clear community portrait and a memorable protagonist whose poignant fumblings cloak an innocent wisdom demonstrate Kring's promise. -- Publishers Weekly


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