Carry me home

"Sixteen-year-old Earl Gunderman struggles with the problems of family and community in rural 1940s Wisconsin when his brother returns from a prisoner of war camp in the Philippines and his parents' marriage seems to be unraveling."@en
"Sixteen-year-old Earl Gunderman struggles with the problems of family and community in rural 1940s Wisconsin when his brother returns from a prisoner of war camp in the Philippines and his parents' marriage seems to be unraveling."
"Rural Wisconsin in 1940 has sixteen-year-old Earl "Earwig" Gunderman, who is not like other boys his age. Fiercely protected by his older brother, Earwig sees his town and the world around him through the prism of his own unique understanding. He sees his mother's sadness and his father's growing solitude. He sees his brother, Jimmy, falling in love with the most beautiful girl in town. And while Earwig is unable to make change for customers at his family's store, he is singularly well suited to understand what other people in his town cannot: that life as they know it is about to change; the coming war will touch them all."@en