This short novel is kind of an inverse version of Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun or Larry Brown’s Dirty Work. And is oddly the second novel I read this week (entirely by accident about a soldier wounded in a war lying in recovery missing huge parts of their face or brain). Unlike those other books, this book exists outside the consciousness of the wounded man. Here we have a story of friendship, marriage, loss, pain, recovery, and pressure told by the soldier buddy of the wounded […]