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The Standard Grand — Jay Baron Nicorvo
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Apr-2017 (Hardcover) -
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Literary -
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368 -
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When an Army trucker goes AWOL before her third deployment, she ends up sleeping in Central Park. There, she meets a Vietnam vet and widower who inherited a tumbledown Borscht Belt resort. Converted into a halfway house for homeless veterans, the Standardâ�,�•and its two thousand acres over the Marcellus Shale Formationâ�,�•is coveted by a Houston-based multinational company. Toward what end, only a corporate executive knows.
With three violent acts at its centerâ�,�•a mauling, a shooting, a mysterious death decades in the pastâ�,�•and set largely in the Catskills, The Standard Grand spans an epic year in the lives of its diverse cast: a female veteran protagonist, a Mesoamerican lesbian landman, a mercenary security contractor keeping secrets and seeking answers, a conspiratorial gang of combat vets fighting to get peaceably by, and a cougarâ�,�•along with appearances by Sammy Davis, Jr. and Senator Al Franken. All of the charactersâ�,�•soldiers, civiliansâ�,�•struggle to discover that what matters most is not that they've caused no harm, but how they make amends for the harm they've caused.
THE STANDARD GRAND confronts a glaring cultural omission: the absence of women in our war stories. Like the best of its charactersâ�,�•who aspire more to goodness than greatnessâ�,�•this American novel hopes to darn a hole or two in the frayed national fabric.
With three violent acts at its centerâ�,�•a mauling, a shooting, a mysterious death decades in the pastâ�,�•and set largely in the Catskills, The Standard Grand spans an epic year in the lives of its diverse cast: a female veteran protagonist, a Mesoamerican lesbian landman, a mercenary security contractor keeping secrets and seeking answers, a conspiratorial gang of combat vets fighting to get peaceably by, and a cougarâ�,�•along with appearances by Sammy Davis, Jr. and Senator Al Franken. All of the charactersâ�,�•soldiers, civiliansâ�,�•struggle to discover that what matters most is not that they've caused no harm, but how they make amends for the harm they've caused.
THE STANDARD GRAND confronts a glaring cultural omission: the absence of women in our war stories. Like the best of its charactersâ�,�•who aspire more to goodness than greatnessâ�,�•this American novel hopes to darn a hole or two in the frayed national fabric.
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