Treuer, David, author.
New York : Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA), 2015.
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Notes:
- Subtitle from jacket.
- August 1942. Frankie Washburn returns to his family’s 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 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.
Subjects:
- World War, 1939-1945 — United States — Fiction.
- Families — Minnesota — Fiction.
- Leech Lake Indian Reservation (Minn.) — Social life and customs — Fiction.
- World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924
- Indians of North America. fast (OCoLC)fst00969633
- Minnesota. fast (OCoLC)fst01204560
- 1939 – 1945 fast
- Historical fiction. gsafd
- Fiction. fast (OCoLC)fst01423787
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