A harrowing, powerful fictional story of a young man's experiences fighting in Iraq and his subsequent return home, burdened with guilt and weighed down by the long shadow of war on civvy street.
The book rightly comes lauded with plaudits and has one several awards including the Guardian First Book Award 2012 and the PEN/Hemmingway Award for First Fiction 2013.
The Author
Kevin Powers is a first time American author who himself served in Iraq in 2004 and 2005. He studied English at Virginia Commonwealth University after his honorable discharge and received an M.F.A. in Poetry from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin in 2012.
More Information
Read more at http://www.kevincpowers.com and a Guardian article about the novel at http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jun/23/kevin-powers-interview-yellow-birds
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