No better time : a novel of the spirited women of the Six Triple Eight Central Postal Directory Battalion
Call Number
- FICTION WILL (CEN, EAS)
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2024]
Physical Description
229 pages ; 24 cm
Summary
In early 1945, Dorothy and 800 African American WACs arrive at their post in England where they are tasked with processing mail sent to GIs from their loved ones back home, an estimated 17 million pieces, and with their outlooks changed forever, return to the U.S. as the catalysts for change in America.
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 > Fiction.
- African American women > Fiction.
- World War, 1939-1945 > Participation, African American > Fiction.
- World War, 1939-1945 > Participation, Female > Fiction.
- African American soldiers > Fiction.
- Friendship > Fiction.
- England > Fiction.
- France > Fiction.
- United States. Army. Women's Army Corps. Central Postal Battalion, 6888th > Fiction.