My Life as a Foreign Country is lyrical and restless, both ironic and profoundly empathetic.-Mark Doty, author of Fire to Fire, winner of the National Book Award In Brian Turner's extraordinarily capable hands, language is war's undoing, in the sense that his words won't allow absurdity and terror to be anything less than real. This is a profound and beautiful work of art.-Benjamin Busch, author of Dust to Dust 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. Turner's voice is prophetic, an eerie calm in the midst of calamity.Achingly, disturbingly, shockingly beautiful.-Nick Flynn, author of The Reenactments and The Ticking Is the BombĪ brilliant fever dream of war's surreality, its lastingness, its place in families and in the fate of nations. Moments of candor and existential longing break open to expose a world of truths.Brian Turner is a born storyteller.-Yusef Komunyakaa, author of Neon Vernacular, winner of the Pulitzer Prize If you want to know what modern soldiers see when they look at their world, read this book.-Larry Heinemann, author of Paco's Story, winner of the National Book Award Brian Turner has given us not so much a memoir as a meditation, rendered with grace and wit and wisdom.
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