This document contains short excerpts from a novel that reference various American symbols and icons such as cars (Oldsmobile, Chevron, Ford, Cadillac), cigarettes (Camels), soda (Dr Pepper), and references to World War 2 and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The excerpts describe characters, settings, and events in the story.

1. Symbols of America found in
Home
Ryan Fox

2. Frank Money

3. “Other than that B-29 roar, exactly
what he was doing to attract police
attention was long gone” (p.14)

4. “Before joining the line at the
Greyhound door, Frank noticed a
police car cruising by” (p. 19)

5. “He kept Frank on the back porch near
the driveway, where a Rocket 98
Oldsmobile lurked…” (p. 22)

6. “At the next stop he got off and walked
toward a Chevron station, its black
flames shooting out from the V” (p.
23)

7. “The train’s rocking and the singing
rails soothed him into a rare sleep that
was so sound he missed the beginning
of the riot, but not its end” (p. 24)

8. “For sleeping the YMCA is always a
good idea” (p. 25)

9. “As soon as he did, the zoot-suited
man got up and disappeared down the
aisle” (p. 27)

10. “And maybe a stop at the Goodwill,
okay?” (p. 29)

11. “Regrets, excuses, righteousness, false
memory, and future plans mixed
together or stood like soldiers in line”
(p. 43)

12. “Besides, she had a Ford and owned
her house” (p. 44)

13. “Most of the young ones had enlisted
in the war and when it was over didn’t
come back to work cotton, peanuts or
lumber” (p. 45)

14. Thelma, who lived in a big apartment
upstairs, became a friend and helped
her get a job dishwashing at Bobby’s
Rib House, fusing friendship with blunt
counsel” (p. 50)

15. “Thelma patted her apron pocket for a
pack of Camels” (p. 56)

16. So, whether annoyed or alarmed, she
forgave him much: like that time in
February when they went to a church
convention held on a high school
football field” (p. 76)

17. They had been standing at a table,
piling seconds of fried chicken on their
plates, when a little girl with slanty
eyes reached up over the opposite
edge of the table to grab a cupcake”
(p. 76)

18. “The woman behind the counter was
in a wheelchair but, quick as a
hummingbird, glided to the freezer
and extracted the can of Dr. Pepper”
(p. 100)

19. “A brand-new Cadillac, gilded in the
sunlight, was parked in front” (p. 101)

20. “After Hiroshima, the musicians
understood as early as anyone that
Truman’s bomb changed everything
and only scat and bebop could say
how” (p. 108)

21. “ I don’t want no trouble with cops”
(p. 114)

22. “You ate some in the good old USA
too, but you didn’t know it” (p. 140)