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A raw and rampaging debut novel from the author of the inventive, unsparing, irreverent and consistently entertaining (NYTBR) memoir Eat the Appleexamining the war after the war for US veterans: returning home.

What was it like? It's the only thing anyone wants to know about warand the last thing Corporal Dean Pusey wants to talk about, at least not with one of these fat and happy civilians crowding the bar. Dean is two months free from the Marine Corps, and life back in his Indiana hometown is anything but peaceful.

That's when the woman next to him offers to buy him a drink. Max is nicegorgeous, funny, easy to talk to. Dean doesn't dare tell her about the sheep he took care of on his first deployment, only to watch it get torn to shreds by a pack of wild dogs; or the naked, shivering Iraqi teenager his platoon detained after an IED blast. He needs to leave all that behind and become a new personthe kind who sticks around when Max gets pregnant.

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A raw and rampaging debut novel from the author of the inventive, unsparing, irreverent and consistently entertaining (NYTBR) memoir Eat... Read more

    Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
    Publication Date: 9/12/2024
    ISBN13: 9781639732791, 978-1639732791
    ISBN10: 1639732799

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    Description

    A raw and rampaging debut novel from the author of the inventive, unsparing, irreverent and consistently entertaining (NYTBR) memoir Eat the Appleexamining the war after the war for US veterans: returning home.

    What was it like? It's the only thing anyone wants to know about warand the last thing Corporal Dean Pusey wants to talk about, at least not with one of these fat and happy civilians crowding the bar. Dean is two months free from the Marine Corps, and life back in his Indiana hometown is anything but peaceful.

    That's when the woman next to him offers to buy him a drink. Max is nicegorgeous, funny, easy to talk to. Dean doesn't dare tell her about the sheep he took care of on his first deployment, only to watch it get torn to shreds by a pack of wild dogs; or the naked, shivering Iraqi teenager his platoon detained after an IED blast. He needs to leave all that behind and become a new personthe kind who sticks around when Max gets pregnant.

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