Thematic guide to the American novel / Lynda G. Adamson.

Abandonment
Absurdity of war
Alienation
American dream
Battered women
Being and becoming
Bereavement
Betrayal
Community
Compassion
Corrupting power
Courage
Cultural conflict
Death
Disabled
Duty
Emotional abuse
Family
Fathers and sons
Friendship
Greed
Grotesques
Healers
Immigrant life
Imprisonment
Independent women
Injustice
Journeys
Knowableness of God
Loneliness
Loss
Love
Male behavior
Masquerading
Mothers and daughters
Multiracial offspring
Nature
Oppression
Outsiders
Quests
Rejection
Responsibility
Revealing family history
Search for a father
Search for identity
Storytelling
Suicide
Survival
Trials
Value of land.