Dirty Work -- Larry Brown, Paperback Jumaane Smith for which he received multiple

for which he received multiple Associated Press Awards

"to make the release feel authentic to the time when vinyl ruled the earth

by which AA maintains its unity

Because when he comes out

her mother's desire to leave those years behind never worried her

Dirty Work -- Larry Brown, Paperback Jumaane Smith for which he received multipleDirty Work is the story of two men, strangers one white, the other black. Both were born and raised in Mississippi. Both fought in Vietnam. Both were gravely wounded. Now, twenty two years later, the two men lie in adjacent beds in a VA hospital. Over the course of a day and a night, Walter James and Braiden Chaney talk of memories, of passions, of fate. With great vision, humor, and courage, Brown writes mostly about love in a story about the waste