THE Grass is a novel, about Tom Kelly, a young man from Fargo, who is expelled from the University of Minnesota for protesting its treatment of its only black faculty member at the height of McCarthyism, is dumped by his girlfriend, and joins the Army during the Korean War. In his journey he encounters the racism, anti-Semitism, sexism and repression of America in the 1950s and experiences love and war. The Grass was selected as a finalist for the Bellwether Prize for fiction established by Barbara Kingsolver in support ofliterature for social change.
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Paul Zerby is the author of The Grass, his first novel, published by Northstar Press.
