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Eli the Good (Hardcover)

By: Silas House (Author)

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In the summer of 1976, Eli Book watches from the sidelines as tempers flare and his father's nightmares of the Vietnam War rage, but soon even he cannot escape the current conflict, facing the complexities of childhood and the realities of war.

In his timely YA debut, a best-selling novelist revisits a summer of tumult and truth for a young narrator and his war-torn family.
Bicentennial fireworks burn the sky. Bob Seger growls from a transistor radio. And down by the river, girls line up on lawn chairs in pursuit of the perfect tan. Yet for ten-year-old Eli Book, the summer of 1976 is the one that threatened to tear his family apart. There is his distant mother; his traumatized Vietnam vet dad; his wild sister; his former warprotester aunt; and his tough yet troubled best friend, Edie, the only person with whom he can be himself. As tempers flare and his father's nightmares rage, Eli watches from the sidelines, but soon even he cannot escape the current of conflict. From Silas House comes a tender look at the complexities of childhood and the realities of war -- a quintessentially Southern novel filled with music, nostalgic detail, a deep respect for nature, and a powerful sense of place.

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It's the summer of 1976 and the Vietnam War is over, but back in America, the horrible effects of the war still linger on in the life of ten-year-old Eli whose father, a veteran, has come back a changed man. With no comfort to be found in his tempestuous sister and aloof mother, where should Eli turn? The first YA novel from acclaimed author Silas House, ELI THE GOOD is a moving and complex look at a troubled family in a troubled time.

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