Under the Apple Tree: A Novel of the Home Front

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Indiana University Press, 1998 - Fiction - 342 pages
Imagine a past you must have known, even if you weren't there. Birney, Illinois. Population 4,742. December 7, 1941. Ten-year-old Artie Garber sees his brother Roy go off to war. Artie and his friends watch the skies for German planes, and the streets for spies. When Roy returns, his girlfriend is with another guy. The scenes, sounds, and images of Birney are at once lost in time, yet still with us today in this masterful novel of loss and growth.
 

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Section 1
3
Section 2
11
Section 3
27
Section 4
51
Section 5
59
Section 6
69
Section 7
77
Section 8
85
Section 12
121
Section 13
139
Section 14
167
Section 15
193
Section 16
207
Section 17
251
Section 18
275
Section 19
301

Section 9
95
Section 10
101
Section 11
103
Section 20
325
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