Home by Toni Morrison

This is short book - a novella really - that tells the story of Frank Money, a Korean  War veteran who is suffering from what we now call Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. But it didn't have a name back then, and it was particularly hard to return home as a black veteran, with racial discrimination still rampant.

Frank's story is told with pathos, but brevity. I had a hard time getting into the main character, actually, but was much more involved in the character of Cee, his sister.

She plays a pivotal role in the book as it opens with the two of them, as children, witnessing a lynching.

What Frank witnesses in Korea is equally disturbing, and he returns home to a psychiatric ward with images that haunt him and remind him of what he has experienced.....he is actually a bit delusional about his war experiences.

This is a short read, and a good one. Morrison's prose is impeccable.