The Round Prairie Wars - Ross, Aden
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"The Round Prairie Wars" is a coming-of-age story set on the Great Plains in 1953 during the Red Scare. Nine-year-old Jeb Wilder faces battles on every front, living in a trailer house with her schizophrenic mother in a small town determined to ostracize anyone perceived as different. While her mother drags Jeb into a world of shifting realities and vivid hallucinations, she also protects her with poetry and word games. Meanwhile, Round Prairie moves toward a horrendous incident which disguises small-town bigotry as a Communist purge. With the help of her brother and a few unlikely friends,…mehr

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"The Round Prairie Wars" is a coming-of-age story set on the Great Plains in 1953 during the Red Scare. Nine-year-old Jeb Wilder faces battles on every front, living in a trailer house with her schizophrenic mother in a small town determined to ostracize anyone perceived as different. While her mother drags Jeb into a world of shifting realities and vivid hallucinations, she also protects her with poetry and word games. Meanwhile, Round Prairie moves toward a horrendous incident which disguises small-town bigotry as a Communist purge. With the help of her brother and a few unlikely friends, Jeb manages to build a life from pieces of rubble, broken and random, but uniquely hers.
Autorenporträt
Award-winning writer Aden Ross received her Ph.D. from the University of Utah. She taught literature; creative writing; theater; and interdisciplinary courses in art, music, and philosophy for over two decades. Her plays and poetry have been anthologized in numerous publications. Her libretto for "Dreamkeepers," written for the Utah Centennial Opera, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Outside academia, she has survived 25 productions of her plays, a serious Harley accident, teaching piano lessons, moving 55 times, selling Ferraris, and being locked down while teaching inside Utah State Prison.