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At the end of the Vietnam War, Calvin Parsons, a war resistor who fled the country to Mexico, returns to his childhood home to work on the family farm, only to run into the start of the farm crisis in the 1970s.
Peopled with unforgettable characters such as Calvin's Uncle Karl and Aunt Martha, "Buckwheat" Van Anders, and Mike McCormick and his wife, this novel resonates with the life of the Great Plains. Perhaps inevitably for a story set in this vast and often inhospitable region, the tablelands and prairie around the fictional Platte River town of Revere, Nebraska, begin to assume the quality of an added character in the novel.
Destined to take its place alongside the great stories of the plains by Cather, Sandoz, and Rolvaag, Homefield: Sonata in Rural Voice tells the story of the end of an era, the beginnings of one man's understanding of himself, and of the bonds of friendship, family, and the land.
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The author of a dozen books, including poetry, fiction, and regional history, Robert Richter has a fifty-year relationship with Latin America, and that cultural geography inspires his work. In 2000 Richter won the Nebraska Arts Council's Literary Achievement Award for nonfiction, and in 2007, he was a Fulbright Research Fellow in Buenos Aires. Richter has also been a wheat farmer, substitute teacher, and tour guide in Latin America. Besides the 'Something' series, Richter's other books on Mexico include Search for the Camino Real: a history of San Blas and the Road to get there; Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas and the Roots of Mexico's New Democracy; and Sayulita: Mexico's Lost Coastal Village Culture, which received the Silver Award in the multicultural division of the Kopps-Fetherling International Book Awards in 2020.
