The last thing you surrender / Leonard Pitts, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pitts, Leonard, Jr., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social change.

African Americans--Fiction.

African Americans.

World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.

World War, 1939-1945.

Southern States--Fiction.

Southern States.

Social change--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Historical fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

511 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Bolden, an Agate imprint, [2019]

Summary:

"Pulitzer-winning journalist and bestselling novelist (Freeman) Leonard Pitts, Jr.'s new historical page-turner is a great American tale of race and war, following three characters from the Jim Crow South as they face the enormous changes World War II triggers in the United States. An affluent white marine survives Pearl Harbor at the cost of a black messman's life only to be sent, wracked with guilt, to the Pacific and taken prisoner by the Japanese ... a young black woman, widowed by the same events at Pearl, finds unexpected opportunity and a dangerous friendship in a segregated Alabama shipyard feeding the war ... a black man, who as a child saw his parents brutally lynched, is conscripted to fight Nazis for a country he despises and discovers a new kind of patriotism in the all-black 761st Tank Battalion. Set against a backdrop of violent racial conflict on both the front lines and the home front, The Last Thing You Surrender explores the powerful moral struggles of individuals from a divided nation. What does it take to change someone's mind about race? What does it take for a country and a people to move forward, transformed?"-- Provided by publisher.

An affluent white marine survives Pearl Harbor at the cost of a black messman's life only to be sent, wracked with guilt, to the Pacific and taken prisoner by the Japanese. A young black woman, widowed by the events at Pearl, finds unexpected opportunity and a dangerous friendship in a segregated Alabama shipyard feeding the war. A black man, who as a child saw his parents brutally lynched, is conscripted to fight Nazis for a country he despises and discovers a new kind of patriotism in the all-black 761st Tank Battalion. With violent racial conflict on both the front lines and the home front, what does it take for a country and a people to move forward, transformed? -- adapted from jacket

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (505-506).

Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Awards - Fiction, Honor, 2020

Other Format:

Online version: Pitts, Leonard. Last thing you surrender.

ISBN:

9781572842458

1572842458

OCLC:

1076416288

Publisher Number:

99980280918