Drawing Straws, George Pogue's, debut novel, is a 'coming of age' book. Set in rural southwest Missouri in the early 1960s, a ten-year-old boy, Newton Carriger, grows into his teenage years. He loves Cindy, the all-American girl-next-door. His story includes the usual boyhood pranks, pastimes, and typical traumas-until a mysterious stranger comes to own.
Newton, is rescued from drowning by an African American drifter-a hobo, who befriends the boy, and then is found brutally murdered. Newton's ongoing search for resolution to that murder is, in large part, a key to his becoming a young man.
The story is a serious social commentary about the insular lives of rural people who gloss over the murder of a transient black man because he was 'not one of their own.' The local law enforcement community just plain ignored investigating why a hobo died violently, even when all the evidence pointed to a homicide.
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