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Phil Klay is a veteran of the US Marine Corps. His short story collection Redeployment won the 2014 National Book Award for Fiction and the National Book Critics’ Circle John Leonard Prize for best debut work in any genre, and was selected as one of the 10 Best Books of 2014 by The New York Times. His nonfiction work won the George W. Hunt, S.J., Prize for Journalism, Arts & Letters in the category of Cultural & Historical Criticism in 2018. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and the Brookings Institution’s Brookings Essay series. He currently teaches fiction at Fairfield University.

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Average rating: 3.95 · 30,394 ratings · 3,874 reviews · 12 distinct works • Similar authors

	Redeployment 3.96 avg rating — 25,293 ratings — published 2014 — 52 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Missionaries 3.85 avg rating — 3,949 ratings — published 2020 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War by Matt Gallagher (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Roy Scranton (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Colum McCann (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 3.94 avg rating — 560 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War 4.23 avg rating — 384 ratings — published 2022 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Citizen-Soldier: Moral risk and the modern military 4.19 avg rating — 37 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	OIF (Electric Literature's Recommended Reading Book 2) by Phil Klay (Goodreads Author), Nathan Englander (Foreword) 4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ten Kliks South 3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fin de mission by Phil Klay (Goodreads Author), François Happe (translator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Les missionnaires by Phil Klay (Goodreads Author), Laura Derajinski (translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“God always offers forgiveness,” I said, softening my tone, “to those who are truly sorry. But sorry isn’t a feeling, you understand. It’s an action. A determination to make things right.”
― Phil Klay, Redeployment

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“[Prayer] will not protect you. It will help your soul. It's for while you're alive.”
― Phil Klay, Redeployment

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“She spent all his combat pay before he got back, and she was five months pregnant, which, for a Marine coming back from a seven-month deployment, is not pregnant enough.”
― Phil Klay, Redeployment

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What will be our October 2017 Open Pick?

Remember, if you vote for a book and it wins, you are implicitly promising to read the book and participate in the discussion. The poll will be open through August 31st. (Note: You can change your vote at any time prior to the closing of the poll.) Discussion will begin October 1st.

Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck

11 votes, 50.0%

A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride

5 votes, 22.7%

Redeployment by Phil Klay

3 votes, 13.6%

Any Bitter Thing by Monica Wood

2 votes, 9.1%

Dust by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

1 vote, 4.5%

22 total votes

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