Soldier's JoyIt is the early 1970s, and Laidlow has returned from a small war on the far side of the globe to his now abandoned family homestead outside Nashville. He reunites with his white boyhood friend, Redmon, and together with another black man, they wage a bitter war that bears a close and ironic resemblance to another being fought half a world away. |
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