Carry Me Home: A Novel-Fast Shipping

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The love of family. The heartbreak of war. The triumph of coming home.

1940. RuralWisconsin. Sixteen-year-old Earl “Earwig” Gunderman is not like other boys his protected by his older brother, Earwig sees his town and the world aroundhim through the prism of his own unique understanding. He sees his mother’s sadnessand his father’s growing solitude. He sees his brother, Jimmy, falling in love withthe most beautiful girl in town. And while Earwig is unable to make change for customersat his family’s store, he is singularly well suited to understand what other peoplein his town cannot: that life as they know it is about to change; the coming warwill touch them all.

For Jimmy will enlist in the military. And Earwig will watchhis parents’ marriage buckle under the strain of a family secret. And when Jimmyreturns–a fractured shadow of his former self–it is Earwig’s turn to care for 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 townirrevocably altered, Earwig and Jimmy fight to find their own places in a world changedforever.