The Dog Boy by Noel Anenberg
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Overview: In this historical novel set shortly after World War II, an African-American woman seeks to save her injured son amid racial tension and strife. Phosie Mae Eaton leaves her home in Galveston, Texas, to visit her son, Will, a wounded U.S. Marine fresh from combat on Iwo Jima, now in a Los Angeles military hospital. Even as a Southern black woman familiar with the evils of segregated society, Eaton is stunned to discover that racial rules and regulations extend to war heroes. She finds that they are kept in a separate house from the white soldiers, banned from receiving whites’ blood transfusions and aren’t allowed basic amenities, such as coffee, from the Red Cross. She finds Will balancing precariously between life and death, as the gunshot wound in his stomach has festered and become infected. Doctors usually treat such infections with an easy injection of penicillin, but the hospital has no ‘colored’ needles due to their treatment of venereal-disease cases (which have skyrocketed due to postwar celebrations). Eaton strives to help her son in any way possible and, in order to stay in California, takes a job as a maid for a wealthy and eccentric Jewish family, in the home of Lucile Goldberg, a narcissistic divorcee who ignores her five year old son to focus entirely on landing another rich husband, while her deadbeat brother lives off whatever is left of the household income. Mrs. Goldberg has put her son in a cage because the boy constantly mimics the little dog his estranged father gave him and his mother disposed of on a distant street corner. The animal is the only real love the young toddler has experienced in his short life. THE DOG BOY is a powerful tale of love, hate and salvation through the loving heart of a maid who must take control.
Genre: General Fiction l Historical Fiction
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