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Laura (booksnob)
Matt Duffy is an 18 year old soldier in the Iraq war who has been hit by an RPG and is in the hospital with a head injury. He has TBI, traumatic brain injury, and his memory is not reliable. He thinks he killed a young Muslim boy in the alley before he got injured. Matt receives a Purple Heart for being wounded, that he feels he doesn't deserve.

In the hospital Matt meets a variety of soldiers who are suffering from various physical or mental ailments. A very colorful cast of characters. Matt und
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Stacy
Jul 23, 2013 marked it as to-read
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Shelves: contem-fic, soldiers