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This is a solid collection of short stories about the experience of U.S. vets from Iraq or Afghanistan. I found a couple to be quite thought-provoking. I was offended by the misogyny, the violence against civilians, the plea for sympathy by men who volunteered to participate in what I deem to be an immoral war which ran through most of the stories.
I'm underwhelmed. Admittedly I place a high value on innovation--I want my prizewinning books to bring something new in terms of theme or writing or -something-. I don't feel it here. The narrative voice seemed very similar from story to story and all kept morphing in my head into a ghostly voice-over for a war movie. Klay seemed too ready to choose shock over any kind of nuance. Starting the book for instance with the admission that they shot the dogs--low-hanging fruit in terms of getting peop
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May 20, 2015
Susan
marked it as to-read
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