Hold It 'Til It Hurts

A Novel

Fiction & Literature, African American, Military, Literary
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Author: T. Geronimo Johnson ISBN: 9781566893107
Publisher: Coffee House Press Publication: August 9, 2012
Imprint: Coffee House Press Language: English
Author: T. Geronimo Johnson
ISBN: 9781566893107
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Publication: August 9, 2012
Imprint: Coffee House Press
Language: English

A black veteran of Afghanistan searches for his missing brother in “a rich and passionate” debut novel exploring issues of race, war, and family (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
 
When Achilles Conroy and his brother Troy return from a tour of duty in Afghanistan, their white mother presents them with the key to their past: envelopes containing details about their respective birth parents. After Troy disappears, Achilles*—always his brother’s keeper—*embarks on a harrowing journey in search of Troy, an experience that will change him forever.
 
Heartbreaking, intimate, and at times disturbing, Hold It ’Til It Hurts is a modern-day odyssey through war, adventure, disaster, and love, and explores how people who do not define themselves by race make sense of a world that does.

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A black veteran of Afghanistan searches for his missing brother in “a rich and passionate” debut novel exploring issues of race, war, and family (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
 
When Achilles Conroy and his brother Troy return from a tour of duty in Afghanistan, their white mother presents them with the key to their past: envelopes containing details about their respective birth parents. After Troy disappears, Achilles*—always his brother’s keeper—*embarks on a harrowing journey in search of Troy, an experience that will change him forever.
 
Heartbreaking, intimate, and at times disturbing, Hold It ’Til It Hurts is a modern-day odyssey through war, adventure, disaster, and love, and explores how people who do not define themselves by race make sense of a world that does.

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