How to Dodge a Cannonball
A Novel
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How to Dodge a Cannonball
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Dennard Dayle
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How to Dodge a Cannonball is a razor-sharp satire that dives into the heart of the Civil War, hilariously questioning the essence of the fight, not just for territory, but for the soul of America.
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.
His new brothers are even stranger, including a science-fiction playwright, a Haitian double agent, and a former slave feuding with God. Despite his best efforts, Anders starts seeing the war through their eyes, sparking ill-timed questions about who gets to be American or exploit the theater of war. Dennard Dayle’s satire spares no one as doomed charges, draft riots, gleeful arms dealers, and native suppression campaigns test everyone’s definition of loyalty.
Uproariously funny and revelatory, How to Dodge a Cannonball asks if America is worth fighting for. And then answers loudly. Listen to it while it’s still legal.
©2025 Dennard Dayle (P)2025 Macmillan Audio批評家のレビュー
One of LitHub’s “Most Anticipated Books of 2025”
“A heightened examination of America, this funny historical novel puts Dayle’s comedic chops front and center.”—James Folta, LitHub
“Dennard Dayle’s second book certifies his talent. I can’t think of a wittier, more hilarious or more relevant young writer. 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
“This is the Civil War send-up the American canon has been waiting for, and which today’s America, still unsure which version of itself it wants to become, so sorely needs. Dayle is one of our sharpest, funniest, and most unrelenting writers.”—Jessi Jezewska Stevens, author of The Visitors and The Exhibition of Persephone Q