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James W. Bennett
Author
Fresh Killed
Fresh Killed is a mature YA novel. Its protagonist is a teenage boy who is a polio victim. Set in 1952, the story follows the protagonist and his dysfunctional family; eventually he lives with his poverty-stricken grandparents on a struggling peninsula along the Mississippi. His grandfather is a retired Protestant minister who provides some interesting and compelling religious views. There is a love interest in the book, as the young man tries to get next to a very attractive, popular girl. The book includes a good deal of material about the terrifying polio epidemic that gripped the nation in the late forties and early fifties. This is a piece of our history teens know little if anything about. But they should. And since the boy’s older brother is deployed in Korea, the correspondence between the two provides good material about the Korean War as well. Another phenomenon teens know nothing about but should. The historic matrix is one of the book’s singular strengths. The story includes a major crime in the wake of major flooding. This is not a “fun” book. It’s a reflective book with a sensitive first-person narrator about tough times, hardscrabble living, disorientation, human suffering, and a credible religious framework. I would be happy to send you any one of these books. Please contact me at my e-mail address: jwbnnt@aol.com or phone number, 309-808-0025.
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