not always pure blacks and whites

Finished Justin Sirois' and Haneen Alshujairy's Falcons on the Floor a couple of days ago, and I must say, I have to applaud them for writing a war novel that, much like Chimamanda Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun, isn't a polemic or a Dad-was-right confirmation of the status quo. To quote the Rumpus' review, Falcons has a "single-minded focus on the damage done to civil life by war, the negation of the social."

Actually, you should go ahead and read what the Rumpus had to say about this bo...