The Curious Case of Seaman Garber
B. K. Mayo
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Description
Eleven-year-old Seth Roberson and his pal Collin are enjoying a carefree summer before beginning middle school in the fall. All that changes when the boys discover a dead body floating in an abandoned log pond. When no one comes forth to claim the body, identified as that of reclusive Vietnam War veteran Henry Garber, Seth makes it his mission to see that the man's remains receive a proper burial in a national cemetery with military funeral honors. What Seth doesn't know is that startling revelations about Garber's past will upend his life and send him reeling toward manhood.From the author of the award-winning novel Tamara's Child comes this gripping story of a boy and the old man he comes to know only after his death.
Product Details
Price
$13.95
Publisher
Fir Valley Press
Publish Date
February 17, 2022
Pages
268
Dimensions
5.5 X 8.5 X 0.61 inches | 0.76 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780981588414
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B K Mayo's short fiction has appeared in literary journals and story collections. His novel Tamara's Child was a finalist in the Popular Fiction category of the 2010 National Indie Excellence Book Awards. Although he writes mostly fiction, his newspaper column Now That I Think About It, which appeared in Roseburg, Oregon's The News-Review, was widely praised. Mayo and his wife live in an area of southwestern Oregon known as the hundred valleys of the Umpqua.