"The Round Prairie Wars" is a coming-of-age story set on the Great Plains in 1953 during the Red Scare. Nine-year-old Jeb Wilder faces battles on every front, living in a trailer house with her schizophrenic mother in a small town determined to ostracize anyone perceived as different. While her mother drags Jeb into a world of shifting realities and vivid hallucinations, she also protects her with poetry and word games. Meanwhile, Round Prairie moves toward a horrendous incident which disguises small-town bigotry as a ...
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"The Round Prairie Wars" is a coming-of-age story set on the Great Plains in 1953 during the Red Scare. Nine-year-old Jeb Wilder faces battles on every front, living in a trailer house with her schizophrenic mother in a small town determined to ostracize anyone perceived as different. While her mother drags Jeb into a world of shifting realities and vivid hallucinations, she also protects her with poetry and word games. Meanwhile, Round Prairie moves toward a horrendous incident which disguises small-town bigotry as a Communist purge. With the help of her brother and a few unlikely friends, Jeb manages to build a life from pieces of rubble, broken and random, but uniquely hers.
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