Redeployment

"Phil Klay, a former Marine who served in Iraq, delivers perhaps the finest literary account of this generation’s wars. In one story, soldiers shoot dogs — not for fun, but because they feel they have to. In another, a soldier who “collected remains” in Iraq tells his stories differently back home depending on whether he’s talking to men (“funny, with lots of gore”) or women (“sad, with a thousand-yard stare”). The book’s 12 narratives bristle with the horrors of war, its effects on ordinary people and the challenges of coming back home with the scars of battle."

"I was going to say Redeployment, Phil Klay's incredible book of short stories about soldiers and veterans of our most recent wars."