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How To Dodge A Cannonball: A Novel
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A New York Times Notable Book Of 2025An Npr Books We Love Picka New York Times Editors Choice Pickhow To Dodge A Cannonball Is A RazorSharp Satire That Dives Into The Heart Of The Civil War, Hilariously Questioning The Essence Of The Fight, Not Just For Territory, But For The Soul Of America.How To Dodge A Cannonball Is Funnier Than The Civil War Should Ever Be. It Follows Anders, A Teenage Idealist Who Enlists And Reenlists To Shape The American FutureAs Soon As He Figures Out What That Is, Who It Includes, And Why Everyone Wants Him To Die For It. Escaping His Violently Insane Mother Is A Bonus.Anders Finds Honor As A Proud Union Flag TwirlerUntil HeS Captured. Then He Tries Life As A Diehard ConfederateUntil Fate Asks Him To Die Hard For The Confederacy At Gettysburg. Barely Alive, Anders Limps Into A Black Union Regiment In A Stolen Uniform. While Visibly White, He Claims To Be An Octoroon, And They Claim To Believe Him. Only Then Does His Life Get Truly Strange.His New Brothers Are Even Stranger, Including A ScienceFiction Playwright, A Haitian Double Agent, And A Former Slave Feuding With God. Despite His Best Efforts, Anders Starts Seeing The War Through Their Eyes, Sparking IllTimed Questions About Who Gets To Be American Or Exploit The Theater Of War. Dennard DayleS Satire Spares No One As Doomed Charges, Draft Riots, Gleeful Arms Dealers, And Native Suppression Campaigns Test EveryoneS Definition Of Loyalty.Uproariously Funny And Revelatory, How To Dodge A Cannonball Asks If America Is Worth Fighting For. And Then Answers Loudly. Read It While ItS Still Legal.
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