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Reeks: Singers, Soldiers, and Saboteurs

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  • Like
  • Claude
  • Wheeler
  • in
  • Willa
  • Cather's
  • novel.
  • One
  • of
  • Ours,
  • Connor
  • William
  • Conroy
  • faces
  • diminished
  • expectations
  • when
  • bank
  • closings
  • frustrate
  • his
  • dream
  • of
  • earning
  • a
  • college
  • degree.
  • Like
  • Wheeler,
  • the
  • Nebraska
  • farm
  • boy
  • serves
  • his
  • need
  • to
  • make
  • a
  • difference
  • by
  • taking
  • part
  • in
  • his
  • generation's
  • war.
  • Filled
  • with
  • flashbacks
  • of
  • his
  • travels
  • living
  • off
  • the
  • lands
  • and
  • letters
  • to
  • keep
  • him
  • tethered
  • to
  • his
  • family,
  • Connor's
  • story
  • spans
  • two
  • of
  • America's
  • most
  • disruptive
  • decades
  • in
  • which
  • Connor
  • finds
  • his
  • cherished
  • expectations
  • thwarted.
  • Though
  • this
  • book
  • is
  • set
  • during
  • a
  • war
  • and
  • an
  • economic
  • disaster,
  • it's
  • truly
  • a
  • book
  • about family.
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