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This was very interesting and well-written, if hard to read at times. It's the story of two very young Army soldiers and their experiences in Iraq. The story shifts back and forth in time a little bit, primarily between their time while deployed and after. From what I have read and heard in the news and others sources about combat stress, PTSD and the like, this felt very true to life, to the point where I sometimes had to remind myself that it was a novel and not a work of nonfiction. In additi
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Our generation of writers will likely produce a great many novels about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This is one of the better ones I have read (thus far), but there was something almost incomplete about it, to me. I never really bought into the central relationship, the friendship between Murph and Bartle (the narrator), and the resolution was a little too...neat. This was a promising debut novel, but I do feel that Powers was still holding back.
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