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Author:

Vlautin, Willy.

Title:

The free.

Publisher:

Harper Perennial,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

297 pages ; 20 cm.

Subject:

Medical.
Family.

Summary:

While serving in Iraq, veteran Leroy Kervin suffered a traumatic brain injury. Frustrated by the simplest daily routines, and unable to form new memories, he eventually attempts suicide. Lying in a coma, he retreats deep inside the memories locked in his mind. Freddie McCall works two jobs and still can't make ends meet. He's lost his wife and kids, and the house is next. Medical bills have buried him in debt, a situation that propels him to consider a lucrativeand dangerousproposition. Pauline Hawkins is a nurse at the local hospital. Though she attends to others' needs with practical yet firm kindness, including her mentally ill elderly father, she remains emotionally removed. But a new patient, a young runaway, touches something deep and unexpected inside her. The lives of these characters intersect as they look for meaning in desperate times.

ISBN:

0062276743
9780062276742

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

FYPI314 -- Dubuque County Library - Asbury Branch (Asbury)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

DBPE173 -- Clear Lake Public Library (Clear Lake)

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)

HNPC845 -- Hawarden Public Library (Hawarden)

YCPD572 -- Hiawatha Public Library (Hiawatha)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

RSPC135 -- Lake City Public Library (Lake City)

LPPC815 -- Lake View Public Library (Lake View)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

ZUPD675 -- Onawa Public Library (Onawa)

AWPD207 -- Osceola Public Library (Osceola)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)