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1. • value: motherhood
2. • value: post-traumatic stress
3. • value: small town
4. • value: PTSD
5. • value: vet
6. • value: race
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10. • value: Iraq War
11. • value: Mississippi
12. • value: gun violence

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1. • role: Author
   • fileAs: Lindsey, Odie
   • bioText: Odie Lindsey is the author of We Come to Our Senses: Stories. He received an NEA Fellowship for combat veterans and is writer-in-residence at Vanderbilt University's Center for Medicine, Health, and Society. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Some Go Home

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This "thrilling" novel that follows three generations—fractured by murder, seeking redemption—in fictional Pitchlynn, Mississippi "has the grit, power, and soul of Janis Joplin and the hardscrabble depth of Johnny Cash." (Randall Kenan)

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 retrial of his father, Hare Hobbs, for a decades-old, civil rights–era murder. Colleen and Derby's community, including the descendants of the murder victim, still grapple with the fallout; corrections officer Doc and his wife, Jessica, have built their life in the shadow of this violent act.

As a media frenzy builds, questions of Hare's guilt—and of the townsfolks' potential complicity in the crime—only magnify the ever-present tensions of class and race, tied always to the land and who can call it their own. At the center of these lingering questions is Wallis House, an antebellum estate that has recently passed to new hands. A brick-and-mortar representation of a town trying to erase its past, Wallis House is both the jewel of a gentrifying 2010s Pitchlynn, and the scene of the 1964 murder itself. When fresh violence erupts on the property grounds, the battle between old Pitchlynn and new, between memorial site and moving on, forces a reckoning and irreparable loss.

Some Go Home twists together personal and collective history, binding north Mississippi to northside Chicago, in a richly textured, explosive depiction of both the American South and our larger cultural legacy.

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   • source: New York Times Book Review
   • content: A polished debut novel...[Some Go Home] captures the divided identity of the new South.
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   • source: Randall Kenan
   • content: Some Go Home has the grit, power, and soul of Janis Joplin and the hardscrabble depth of Johnny Cash...This novel is nothing short of thrilling.
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   • source: Jonathan Miles;Garden and Gun
   • content: [A] charismatic debut...[As with] Jesmyn Ward's Bois Sauvage [and] William Faulkner's Jefferson...Pitchlynn is a vital new locale on that Mississippi map.
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     Starred review from May 11, 2020
     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 1960s 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. Derby’s father, Hale Hobbs—Derby took his mother’s maiden name to distance himself from his father—is making headlines with his retrial for the murder of a young black man back in the civil rights era. Derby’s boss, JP, has moved from Chicago to Pitchlynn with his infant daughter, and with Derby’s help is overhauling the area’s famed Wallis mansion, renowned for its centuries-old magnolia tree. JP’s recently deceased wife, Dru, was heir to the home, and he resolves to get back at the town for the way Dru was treated after the accidental death of her cousin by giving the “stodgy white manor” a mid-century palette rather than a proper restoration. Colleen, afraid she won’t be able to give her children a good future, tries to get Derby to spend less time working for JP. Amid the distraction of town drama over the Wallis project, a catastrophic accident at the Friar household leads Colleen to confront her demons. In dazzling prose, the author lassos complex subjects with acuity, from the legacy of racism in Mississippi to internecine class wars, the horror of combat, and the joy and terror of becoming a mother. This is a consummate portrait of human fragility and grim determination.

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     May 15, 2020
     Memories of a 1964 murder in Mississippi are forced back to the surface, reopening old wounds over race and class. Lindsey's ambitious debut novel--an admirable bid to compete with William Faulkner at his own game--concerns two forms of PTSD. Colleen, a white Iraq War vet, has returned home to the small town of Pitchlynn ("the poorest slice of the poorest state in the nation") and is struggling toward normalcy. After a period of drinking and drugging laid her low, she's started a tenuous new life with her husband, Derby, with whom she's pregnant with twins. (Not that it keeps her from sneaking the occasional cigarette.) The other form of PTSD involves all of Pitchlynn: Derby's father, Hare, is being retried for the murder of Gabe, a black man who stoked resentment among the white locals for owning land outright on a sharecropper farm. Derby has disowned Hare, but his half brother, Sonny, is sure Hare is innocent, though his efforts to defend dad's honor end when his Cessna crashes, sending him to the ICU. Amid the anxiety over the retrial, another battle is brewing over the mansion once owned by the family that may have commissioned Hare to lynch Gabe; a massive magnolia tree on the property, and the abuses it receives over the course of the story, serves as a symbol for this complex interplay of blood and memory. Perhaps too complex: Some characters are underdrawn, as the ties among Hare's family, friends, and enemies acquire ever thickening knots. (An issue in Faulkner's fiction too, of course.) But the novel has some sturdy support beams in its central characters, especially Colleen, whose journey from soldier to almost-drug casualty to beauty queen to conflicted new mom is bracing at every turn. A compassionate and complex debut, assuredly encompassing post-Iraq War fiction and old-fashioned Southern gothic.

     COPYRIGHT(2020) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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     June 1, 2020
     

     DEBUT Combat veteran Colleen is trying to escape a troubled past, while husband Derby is trying to escape the shadow of his father, Hare Hobbs, who was thought guilty but not convicted of a civil rights-era murder. As Colleen fights addictions, Derby busies himself with the restoration of a mansion in Pitchlynn, MS, a town trying to reinvent itself as "quaint." Mansion owner DJ wants to do it in contemporary colors, which brings on the ire of local bluenose Susan Geoge Wallis. The mansion is at the emblematic center of this highly realistic novel of local color, with several plot lines developing almost as a series of novellas and even tracing back to the 1964 murder. Twins almost make things better for Colleen and Derby, but not quite--Colleen takes off for a multiyear car trip to find herself, which she seems to do. Meanwhile, DJ gives up and returns to Chicago, and Hare Hobbs, awash in publicity around a retrial for the murder, goes out in a blaze, but not of glory. VERDICT Smooth and evocative, the writing truly brings the town of Pitchlynn to life. A fine first novel in the lasting tradition of Southern fiction.--Robert E. Brown, Oswego, NY

     Copyright 2020 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     June 1, 2020
     Lindsey follows his superb story collection, We Come to Our Senses (2016), with a debut novel centered around Hare Hobbs, a white eightysomething inmate facing retrial for the 1964 murder of a young Black man. As the trial approaches, the townsfolk of Pitchlynn, Mississippi, brace themselves for the media frenzy. Hare's son, Derby, dodges reporters and takes his mother's last name, even as he accepts a job restoring the antebellum manor where the crime was committed. Derby's wife, Colleen, is equally keen to avoid publicity, while pregnancy and Hare's infamy threaten to expose suppressed memories of her military service in Iraq. Derby's boss, JP, a Chicagoan, takes on the restoration project to spite the townsfolk, especially the wealthy Wallis family, who once owned the estate and fight to reinstate it as Pitchlynn's defining attraction. Hare's case is further complicated by a plane crash and a Black prison guard's curiosity. Spanning decades of class wars and racial tension, Lindsey's novel is nothing short of the South's social history in miniature, a tangled but moving portrait of restoration.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2020, American Library Association.)

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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. 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.

As Colleen and Derby prepare for the arrival of their twins, they must confront what it will mean to parent children in Pitchlynn, a town whose upscale marketing rebrand will reframe its antebellum estates . . . and erase any legacy of violence. And as the trial draws near, questions of Hare's guilt only magnify these tensions of class and race, tied always to the land and who can call it their own.

Twisting together individual and...

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