Dust Child fearless jones

Dust Child fearless jonesFinalist for the 2024 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. The author of the award winning The Mountains Sing returns with a suspenseful and moving saga of wartime love, family, loss, and redemption set in Vit Nam. In 1969, sisters Trang and Qunh, desperate to help their parents pay off debts, leave their rural village to work in a bar in Si Gn. Once in the big city, the young girls learn how to drink and flirt (and more) with American GIs in return for

a tough-as-nails black gay Vietnam vet and Republican-but they're the closest friend either of them has in the world

In the Pines casts an unsparing eye over this intimate terrain

Begin with a map that guides you through a workbook jam-packed with activities based on parts of speech

calls her “rabid fairy

a respected police officer

by tackling the etiquette questions specific to our age-such as Why shouldn't you ask a cab driver where's he's from

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA)

her mind eroded by dementia

will learn all about every element in the periodic table from the first element

X and Y will learn that by using math they can bake their way to success

Eric Clapton's position as the world's greatest rock guitarist is unlikely to change in our lifetime

and pure fun