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The Canary Room

by Linda Casebeer
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781494423766
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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  • Pages: 280
  • Original Price: USD 12.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 377 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): General

In the spring of 1945, a young boy in the Pacific Northwest will make a life-or-death decision. Every morning, Herman "Hermy" Auerbach awakens to the pre-dawn song of canaries. The porch where he sleeps contains dozens of the songbirds. Outside, in the wider world, the Second World War enters its final, bloody months. Hermy comes to the Williams' house under protest after his parents' divorce, a result of his father leaving home initially to pursue his impossible dream of becoming an intelligence officer. Herman's mother, remarried to a sailor, abandons her son to move across the country and start another family with her new husband. By the time he takes up residency in the canary room, Hermy has already suffered both from abandonment and bullying. Life with the large, messy Williams clan offers Hermy little relief, although he bonds with the other boys in the family. When the boys hatch a wild escape plan, Hermy finds himself facing death, and deciding if his life is worth the struggle to survive after losing everything. A compelling story of one boy's struggle to survive the uncertainties of foster care and the war, The Canary Room brings to life the daily challenges of life on the US home front in vivid, historically accurate detail.

Edwin Casebeer, a professor emeritus of Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), shared his love of literature and writing with students for over thirty years. Born in 1933, Casebeer grew up during World War II, experiencing family disruptions similar to those fictionalized in The Canary Room. He has published fiction and poetry in small press journals, and is the author of a definitive critical work on Herman Hesse. Linda Casebeer is a lyrical poet whose works appear in small press journals and The Last Eclipsed Moon, a compilation of poetry from Cherry Grove Collections. She began collaborating on novels with her husband since both believe female characters are sometimes best written by women, just as male characters are best written by men.

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