Scars and Stars, Dustin Stevens
Scars and Stars, Dustin Stevens
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Scars and Stars

Author: Dustin Stevens

Narrator: Roger Wayne

Unabridged: 9 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/26/2018


Synopsis

A boy of just six years old, Austin Roberts found himself perpetually in the way at the post-funeral gathering of his great uncle Jack. Frustrated and alone, he wandered out onto the front porch to find his great uncle Cat, Jack's brother, sitting alone, an old album on his lap. Oblivious to the world around them, the two begin an unlikely conversation and together embark on a journey that stretches almost seven decades in length.

Page by page, Cat imparts the story of the album to young Austin, using a series of seemingly mundane and unconnected objects to tell the story of the brothers Roberts from long ago. Beginning with their humble upbringing by a single mother on the river bottoms of rural Ohio to the day they left home to serve in the Korean War, through their capture and escape from an unmarked prisoner of war camp and on through the lives they returned to, the album tells a story of bravery and brotherhood that knows no bounds.

About Dustin Stevens

Dustin Stevens is the author of over twenty novels, including the Zoo Crew series, Krokodil, Quarterback, Be My Eyes, Scars and Stars, and Catastrophic. He is also the author of several short stories that have appeared in various magazines and anthologies, as well as an award-winning screenwriter. He currently resides in Honolulu, Hawaii.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kade on April 11, 2018

Scars and Stars is told from the view of a nephew of the main characters. The main characters are two brothers. After one of the brothers dies the remaining one, called Uncle Cat, sits down his nephew and shows him a scrapbook he made with his brother. Cat starts by talking about his childhood and w......more

Goodreads review by Shannon on December 01, 2018

Right to my heart I honestly didn't know if I wanted to read a war story or not. Don't get me wrong, I'm very interested in them, my grandfather fought in WWII, my Dad was a Green Beret, my ex did 25 years in the Navy. Just yesterday I watched a documentary by Granger Smith that made me bawl my eyes......more

Goodreads review by Beth Henderson on July 25, 2018

May we weep for those of the forgotten War I must confess before this story what I knew of the Korean War came from episodes of M.A.S.H. I had heard brief snippets about the Choisan Reservoir, but this book forced me to do actual research. I live on an old military base & pass streets named for WW2 b......more

Goodreads review by Leila Kuhlmann on February 11, 2018

Five stars for Scars and Stars My father was a veteran of the Korean War. I teach reading and history. Because of my father and all of the other beloved veterans in my family, I teach a unit on war in reading. Good books on the Korean War and World War I that middle schoolers can read are very few. T......more

Goodreads review by John on December 27, 2016

Memories In reading this book it brought back many memories. Memories of growing up on my grandfather's dairy farm with my cousin Bob and the things we got into while on the farm. The things we learned from our grandfather. It also took me back to my time in the Marine Corps and with my brother Mar......more