By the Tyronza River: A Novel By Joyce Belle Harvell Edited By Regina Topaz Smith

By the Tyronza River is a historical fiction about a sharecropper, W.L. Howard, from Twist Arkansas. The story takes place in Twist, Arkansas in 1941. This was a time when the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor, Several Japanese Americans and their families were placed in internment camps, and some blacks were migrating from the North to the South. The United States Army requested the assistance of W.L. Howard and several other sharecroppers in helping them build the internment camps. W.L. is...