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Kings of broken things : a novel

Wheeler, Theodore, author

Overview

An exciting, gritty portrait of a corrupt American city on the edge of self-destruction. During the waning days of World War I, three lost souls find themselves adrift in Omaha, Nebraska, at a time of unprecedented nationalism, xenophobia, and political corruption. Adolescent European refugee Karel Miihlstein's life is transformed after neighborhood boys discover his prodigious natural talent for baseball. Jake Strauss, a young man with a violent past and desperate for a second chance, is drawn into a criminal underworld. Evie Chambers, a kept woman, is trying to make ends meet and looking every which way to escape her cheerless existence. As wounded soldiers return from the front and black migrant workers move north in search of economic opportunity, the immigrant wards of Omaha become a tinderbox of racial resentment stoked by unscrupulous politicians. Punctuated by an unspeakable act of mob violence, the fates of Karel, Jake, and Evie will become inexorably entangled with the schemes of a ruthless political boss whose will to power knows no bounds.

• Publisher: Little A
• Subject: World War (1914-1918) / 1914-1918 / World War, 1914-1918 Nebraska Omaha Fiction. / Immigrants Nebraska Omaha Fiction. / Race riots Nebraska Omaha Fiction. / Political corruption Fiction. / FICTION / Coming of Age. / FICTION / Historical. / FICTION / Literary. / Immigrants. / Political corruption. / Race riots. / Omaha (Neb.) Fiction. / Nebraska Omaha.
• ISBN: 9781503941472, 1503941477, 9781503941465, 1503941469

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PS3623.H449 K56 2017	1	BOOK	GENERAL