America First

In 1917, America braces for war while two boys on opposite ends of the American dream ask the same question: what does it mean to belong? Danny Harding is a Boy Scout left behind when his patrol is called to action, a tenderfoot plagued by feelings of inadequacy, desperate to prove his worth to a nation demanding everything. Riego Yañez has just crossed from Mexico with his family, carrying hope and fear into a country that may or may not want them. As the country mobilizes for conflict, both boys navigate what loyalty means when you're still learning who you are. Greene weaves their stories together in a tender, sometimes painful exploration of American identity, not the kind printed on plaques, but the messy, complicated kind immigrants and children and dreamers have always chased. A story about what we owe the places we come from and the places we want to become.