Boys
by Roger Newman
After Alex’s family is killed by the Ku Klux Klan during the Depression, he takes refuge in the barn of a nearby dairy farm. The family that owns the farm, including their young son Pete, take in Alex and raise the boys together. Pete and Alex think of each other as brothers and help each other navigate Jim Crow racial intolerance together, a challenge experienced differently because of their races. Anticipating European war, Pete and Alex join a segregated US Army. The brothers discover their own identities amid the trauma of battle, leading to them to separate for many years as they continue their careers in the Army. They finally reunite at Fort Jackson, South Carolina in 1969. Confronting escalating racial and civilian hostility in response to the civil rights and antiwar movements, Alex must find those responsible for the brutal off-base beating of Pete. He must also come to grips with his childhood and what it means to be a Black man with a White brother.
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