Bloomsbury presents End of Active Service by Matt Young read by Sam Rushton
A raw and rampaging debut novel from the author of the inventive unsparing irreverent and consistently entertaining NYTBR memoir Eat the Applethe last phase of war for US veterans returning home
What was it like Its 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
Thats when the woman next to him offers to buy him a drink Max is nicegorgeous funny easy to talk to Dean doesnt 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 Hes whiteknuckling it trying to keep calm and its not easy Harder still when his friend and comrade Ruiz starts showing up all over the place like hes been invitedlike he didnt die a year ago He has Max now he has his baby daughter River He doesnt have time for ghosts
With his signature black humor hardeyed honesty and stylistic ingenuity Matt Young delivers a novel that turns the typical war story on its headbeginning not with enlistment but with retirement and locating the lifeordeath stakes not in battle but in the domestic theaters of fatherhood family forgiveness and love
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