About the Book
“How to Dodge a Cannonball” is the great Civil War novel I didn’t know I needed, but now it is never leaving my shelf.” – Gary Shteyngart, New York Times bestselling author of Our Country Friends and Super Sad True Love Story.
How to Dodge a Cannonball is funnier than the Civil War should ever be. It follows Anders, a teenage idealist who enlists and reenlists to shape the American Future—as soon as he figures out what that is, who it includes, and why everyone wants him to die for it. Escaping his violently insane mother is a bonus. Anders finds honor as a proud Union flag twirler—until he’s captured. Then he tries life as a diehard Confederate—until fate asks him to die hard for the Confederacy at Gettysburg. Barely alive, Anders limps into a Black Union regiment in a stolen uniform. While visibly white, he claims to be an octoroon, and they claim to believe him. Only then does his life get truly strange. Uproariously funny and revelatory, How to Dodge a Cannonball asks if America is worth fighting for. And then answers loudly. Read it while it’s still legal.
About the Author
Dennard Dayle is a Brooklyn-based satirist. Dubbed “the new heavyweight in town” by the New York Times for his debut novel How to Dodge a Cannonball, Dennard is also behind the collection Everything Abridged, myriad New Yorker features, and the newsletter Extra Evil. He hopes you’re doing well.
How to Dodge a Cannonball
By Dennard Dayle
$28.99
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
ISBN: 9781250345677
About the Author
