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EAGLE AND CRANE
In EAGLE AND CRANE, two young daredevil flyers confront long-held secrets and ugly truths during the US internment of Japanese immigrants during World War II.
Louis Thorn and Haruto "Harry" Yamadathe Eagle and the Craneare the star attractions of Earl Shaw's Flying Circus, a daredevil (and not exactly legal) flying act that traverses Depression-era California. The young men have a complicated relationship, thanks to the Thorn family's belief that the YamadasJapanese immigrantsstole land that should have stayed in the Thorn family.
While Louis and Harry become aerial stuntmen, performing death-defying tricks high above audiences, they're both drawn to Shaw's smart and appealing stepdaughter, Ava Brooks. And later, when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor and one of Shaw's planes mysteriously crashes with two charred bodies inside, authorities conclude that the victims were Harry and his father, who had escaped from a Japanese internment camp they had been sent to by the federal government. To the local sheriff, the situation is open and shut. But to the lone FBI agent assigned to the case, the details don't add up.
Thus begins an investigation into what really happened to cause the plane crash, who was in the plane when it fell from the sky, and why no one involved seems willing to tell the truth. By turns an absorbing mystery and a fascinating exploration of race, family, and loyalty,EAGLE AND CRANE is that rare novel that tells a gripping story as it explores a terrible era of history and explores injustice and discrimination that feels as resonant as ever today.
Suzanne Rindell is the author of two previous novels,Three-Martini Lunch and The Other Typist. She is working on her next novel and her PhD in American literature, and she divides her time between New York and California.
While Louis and Harry become aerial stuntmen, performing death-defying tricks high above audiences, they're both drawn to Shaw's smart and appealing stepdaughter, Ava Brooks. And later, when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor and one of Shaw's planes mysteriously crashes with two charred bodies inside, authorities conclude that the victims were Harry and his father, who had escaped from a Japanese internment camp they had been sent to by the federal government. To the local sheriff, the situation is open and shut. But to the lone FBI agent assigned to the case, the details don't add up.
Thus begins an investigation into what really happened to cause the plane crash, who was in the plane when it fell from the sky, and why no one involved seems willing to tell the truth. By turns an absorbing mystery and a fascinating exploration of race, family, and loyalty,EAGLE AND CRANE is that rare novel that tells a gripping story as it explores a terrible era of history and explores injustice and discrimination that feels as resonant as ever today.
Suzanne Rindell is the author of two previous novels,Three-Martini Lunch and The Other Typist. She is working on her next novel and her PhD in American literature, and she divides her time between New York and California.
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Published 2018-07-03 by Putnam |