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Siobhan Fallon's You Know When the Men Are Gone, Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam:
"The explosive sort of literary triumph that appears only every few years" New York Journal of Books
"...gripping, straight-up, no-nonsense stories" The New York Times
"...searing collection" Entertainment Weekly's Must List
"...a terrific and terrifically illuminating book" The Washington Post
"...fascinating" O, The Oprah Magazine

She and her family are currenty living in Amman, Jordan.

Watch the book trailer at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT-Gqa...

“There is the war we know – from Hollywood and CNN, about dirt-smeared soldiers disarming IEDs and roaring along in Humvees and kicking down the doors of terrorist hideouts – and then there is the battleground at home depi...more


Hello all! Hope 2013 has been kind to you so far (I just had a baby so I am especially bleary-eyed and sleep-deprived at the moment, though I hope things get better soon, perhaps when wee wicked changeling is in preschool…)


This post is a chain self-interview; I believe it started on She Writes a few months ago. My good friend Olivia Boler, author of The Flower Bowl Spell, asked me to join the b...

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Average rating: 3.75 · 2,528 ratings · 746 reviews · 2 distinct works · Similar authors
You Know When the Men Are Gone
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 2,490 ratings — published 2010 — 12 editions
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“Be safe, she whispered. Then she closed her eyes and said in a low, broken monotone, "I love you.

Kailani



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“I said I don't want to know," Kailani said firmly, her voice suddenly too loud. Cristina sat back into the bench, her eyes wide and disappointed. Then Ana started waving wildly, her small hand arcing for her mother's undivided attention, and, as Kailani watched in silence, the child slipped safely down the slide."

Kailani to Cristina”
Siobhan Fallon, You Know When the Men Are Gone

“It was "Boom Boom" Dupont who had ripped Kit out of the Humvee after the IED went off, the IED that turned the entire undercarriage of his truck into a fiery wall that consumed the five men inside.”
Siobhan Fallon, You Know When the Men Are Gone

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