Carry Me Home

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The love of family. The heartbreak of war. The triumph of coming home. 1940.
Rural Wisconsin. Sixteen-year-old Earl 'Earwig' Gunderman is not like
other boys his age. Fiercely protected by his older brother, Earwig sees
his town and the world around him through the prism of his own unique
understanding. He sees his mother's sadness and his father's growing
solitude. He sees his brother, Jimmy, falling in love with the most
beautiful girl in town. And while Earwig is unable to make change for
customers at his family's store, he is singularly well suited to
understand what other people in his town cannot: that life as they know
it is about to change; the coming war will touch them all. For
Jimmy will enlist in the military. And Earwig will watch his parents'
marriage buckle under the strain of a family secret. And when Jimmy
returns-a fractured shadow of his former self-it is Earwig's turn to
care for him. His struggles to right the wrongs visited upon his revered
older brother by war, women, and life are at once heartwarming and
riotously funny. Their family and town irrevocably altered, Earwig and
Jimmy fight to find their own places in a world changed forever.