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With heroes depicted in correct detail and extensive panorama - a kept-woman's parlor, a contentious interracial baseball game on the Fourth of July, and the tragic true incidents of the Omaha Contest Riot of 1919 - Kings of Broken Things shows the folly of individual nature in an era of amazing ambition. Through the waning times of World Warfare I, three lost souls end up adrift in Omaha, Nebraska, at the same time of unprecedented nationalism, xenophobia, and political corruption. Adolescent Western european refugee Karel Miihlstein's life is transformed after neighborhood boys discover his prodigious natural skill for baseball. Jake Strauss, a young man with a violent history and desperate for another chance, is drawn into a legal underworld. Evie Chambers, a stored woman, is wanting to make ends meet and looking every which way to flee her cheerless life. As wounded soldiers return from leading and dark-colored migrant staff move north searching for economic opportunity, the immigrant wards of Omaha become a tinderbox of racial resentment stoked by unethical politicians. Punctuated by an unspeakable take action of mob assault, the fates of Karel, Jake, and Evie can be inexorably entangled with the plans of your ruthless political manager whose will to electric power is aware of no bounds. Written in the tradition of Don DeLillo and Colum McCann, with a great credit debt to Ralph Ellison, Theodore Wheeler's debut novel Kings of Broken Things is a breathtaking view of your city on the brink of implosion during this summer of strife.
