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Born July 24, 1967, Pierre spends the first seven years of his life in Paris, France until his family moves to Little Rock, Arkansas. He endures the trials of living in America as he experiences racism and other pains of growing up, including losing his best friend just before reaching his teens. He soon discovers the people who raised him are not his biological parents, but they are the great aunt and uncle of his mother. The painful struggle intensifies when his mother tells him that his father never wanted him, hence the reason his aunt raised him.

Une immersion en musique dans la vie d'un jeune peintre devenu camoufleur pendant la Première Guerre mondiale. Jules-Victor Fabre grandit à Montpellier et rêve de devenir peintre. En août, alors que sonne le tocsin, sa vie bascule et le jeune homme se retrouve au front, employé au camouflage. Le sort s'acharne et Jules-Victor est accusé à tort de désertion. Ce roman est le fruit d'un travail mené aux archives de Montpellier autour de la vie des poilus de l'Hérault.