Redeployment
by Phil Klay · 2014
Literary Fiction · ranked #212 in category
Winner · The National Book Award for Fiction, 2014
Fourteen stories about American soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan — some combat veterans, some rear-echelon, some still in country. Klay's National Book Award-winning debut collection is one of the most clear-eyed accounts of what the Iraq War did to the people who fought it and to the civilians who didn't.
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