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A sharp, searching novel of an American son and the family he left behind 埦rom a writer of rare breadth and human insight. My Cold War is a critically acclaimed debut novel of extraordinary depth and range : the story of a man's alienation and attempts at reconnection with his family, and... read more

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First Sentence

night that Communists might break into the house and take me to a church for a blood sacrifice. My mother didn't like my father's leaving that kind of material around where I could see it.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Tom Piazza (Author)

Popular Tags

  1. 1950s
  2. fiction
  3. historical fiction 
 

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