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Some Go Home. by. Odie Lindsey. · Rating details · ratings · 32 reviews. A searing debut novel that follows three generations—fractured by murder, seeking redemption—in fictional Pitchlynn, Mississippi. An Iraq war veteran turned small town homemaker, Colleen works hard to keep her deployment behind her—until pregnancy brings her buried trauma to the surface/5. In Some Go Home, author Odie Lindsey references then-presidential candidate Ronald Reagan's "states' rights" speech as the vehicle that "had re-radicalized Hare's power, breathing life into his limp narrative." Lindsey implies that the candidate's speech allowed the fictional character Hare Hobbs to create an illusion of power for himself by working along with others to suppress the civil rights . Review by Jessica Bates. Told in hypnotic and at times sharp-witted prose, Some Go Home asks what land means to us, what we will do for that land and who we’ll become along the way. Odie Lindsay’s debut novel is filled with the rich and complex texture of the American South. Some Go Home is set in the fictional town of Pitchlynn, Mississippi, where the sweet tea flows with extra sugar and the families all .

Some Go Home Odie Lindsey. Norton, $ (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. OTHER BOOKS. We Come to Our Senses: Stories; Buy this book Lindsey's. An interview with Odie Lindsey on his novel "Some Go Home." Read More Interviews Fiction, Odie Lindsey, Some Go Home Leave a Comment on Odie Lindsey: "Home Is People" The Southern Review of Books is a publication of the MFA Program at Queens University of Charlotte. "Some Go Home has the grit, power, and soul of Janis Joplin and the hardscrabble depth of Johnny Cash. Odie Lindsey brings Pitchlynn and North Mississippi to life better than anybody's business—you will recognize the landscape, the language, and the people as real Some Go Home will have a long and happy life in the American mind.

Some Go Home] captures the divided identity of the new South." New York Times Book Review ★ 05/11/ Lindsey’s incandescent debut novel (after the collection We Come to Our Senses) captures a riveting slice of life from the deep South, spanning the s to the present in fictional Pitchlynn, Miss. It begins and ends with Colleen, an Iraq war vet shadowed by memories of combat, pregnant with twins, and making ends meet with her husband, Derby Friar, a house painter. Review by Jessica Bates. Told in hypnotic and at times sharp-witted prose, Some Go Home asks what land means to us, what we will do for that land and who we’ll become along the way. Odie Lindsay’s debut novel is filled with the rich and complex texture of the American South. Some Go Home is set in the fictional town of Pitchlynn, Mississippi, where the sweet tea flows with extra sugar and the families all know each other’s business. SOME GO HOME. By Odie Lindsey. W. W. Norton Company, J. An Iraq war veteran turned small town homemaker, Colleen works hard to keep her deployment behind her―until pregnancy brings her buried trauma to the surface. She hides her mounting anxiety from her husband, Derby, who is in turn preoccupied with the media frenzy surrounding the long-overdue retrial of his father, Hare Hobbs, for a civil rights–era murder.