![]() ![]() Turner’s poetic gaze irradiates his world… memoir is beautiful, electrifying and full of pain. This is a profound and beautiful work of art. Each sentence has been carefully measured, weighed with loss and vitality, the hard-earned language of a survivor who has seen the world destroyed and written it back to life. ![]() ![]() And Turner looks, brilliantly.Ī brilliant fever dream of war’s surreality, its lastingness, its place in families and in the fate of nations. praiseworthy example of how the empathetic imagination can function beautifully in nonfiction writing…Turner has a talent for amalgamating disparate experiences, especially between civilian and soldier, but also between history and the present…History can only be served by this kind of attention. Man must look at what he has done. Nick Flynn, author of The Reenactments and The Ticking Is the Bomb Turner’s voice is prophetic, an eerie calm in the midst of calamity…Achingly, disturbingly, shockingly beautiful. Turner is the rare soldier-writer who takes a deep interest in Iraqis-their language and literature, their past, their daily doings, their inner lives. ![]()
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