Book
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Between the devil and the deep blue sea : a novel
Call Number
- FICTION CART (CEN)
Publication Information
Brooklyn, New York : Akashic Books, [2022]
Physical Description
336 pages ; 21 cm
Summary
In the early 1970s, César Alvarez enlists in the Navy to escape a life of crime; while the decision saves him from the streets, it also lands him amid volatile racial tensions at a crucial moment in US history.
Notes
"A Kaylie Jones Book"--Cover.
Subjects
- African American sailors > Fiction.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Fiction.
- Race discrimination > United States > Fiction.
- Nineteen seventies > Fiction.
- Redemption > Fiction.
- Self-esteem > Fiction.
- United States > Race relations > 20th century > Fiction.
- United States. Navy > African Americans > Fiction.
- Kitty Hawk (Aircraft carrier) > Fiction.