Margaret's War - Softcover

Stokes, Bill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 159598626X ISBN 13: 9781595986269

Publisher: HenschelHAUS Publishing, Inc., 2018

Synopsis

Margaret’s War uses 15-year-old narrator Billy to juggle the broken heart, the trampled soul, and the fragile sanity of a beautiful young woman when male egos grab and grope at her with the absurd hands of war.

The isolated small town where Billy and Margaret live is suddenly thrust into the brutal reality of World War II when German POWs are brought in to help with crop harvesting.  The face-to-face contact with the killers of their sons is not only beyond the capacities of Gold Star mothers, but twists the thinking of everyone, including Margaret, who is determined to challenge fate.  That challenge gets Margaret, Billy, and his outrageous older friend and mentor Cy immersed in a women-empowering scheme to turn war on its historical head.

The forces of Nature and the contrariness of human nature conspire to bury their efforts in a merciless avalanche of such depravity that their very survival is threatened.

The issues of war veterans as stooges, the fall of racist innocence, and God’s role in war are among the things that Margaret, Billy, and Cy must step around as they go for broke with a plan that tries to enlist the help of Eleanor Roosevelt.

What finally happens is as unpredictable as to where Billy’s beloved dog Toby will next mark his territory.

 

About this edition

• Publisher: HenschelHAUS Publishing, Inc.
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 159598626X
• ISBN 13: 9781595986269
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 278