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A raw and rampaging debut novel from the author of the inventive, unsparing, irreverent and consistently entertaining (NYTBR) memoir Eat the Applethe last phase of war for US veterans: returning home.

What was it like? Its the only thing anyone wants to know about warand the last thing Corporal Dean Pusey wants to talk about, at least not with one of these fat and happy civilians crowding the bar. Dean is two months free from the Marine Corps, and life back in his Indiana hometown is anything but peaceful.

Thats when the woman next to him offers to buy him a drink. Max is nicegorgeous, funny, easy to talk to. Dean doesnt dare tell her about the sheep he took care of on his first deployment, only to watch it get torn to shreds by a pack of wild dogs; or the naked, shivering Iraqi teenager his platoon detained after an IED blast. He needs to leave all that behind and become a new person-the kind who sticks around when Max gets pregnant. Hes white-knuckling it, trying to keep calm, and its not easy. Harder still when his friend and comrade Ruiz starts showing up all over the place like hes been invitedlike he didnt die a year ago. He has Max now, he has his baby daughter, River. He doesnt have time for ghosts.

With his signature black humor, hard-eyed honesty, and stylistic ingenuity, Matt Young delivers a novel that turns the typical war story on its headbeginning not with enlistment but with retirement, and locating the life-or-death stakes not in battle, but in the domestic theaters of fatherhood, family, forgiveness, and love.

Author: Matt Young
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 06/18/2024
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 9.49h x 6.40w x 0.97d
ISBN: 9781639732791
Language: English