Ripping in -- Education -- Against the river -- The road to Kama Daka -- Bread and television -- To fling forward in a certain way -- Playing zombies -- Rhino snot -- On counterinsurgency -- American background -- The trouble with ceremony -- The case for Zakir.
Summary:
The Longer We Were There follows a part-time soldier?s experience over seven years in the Iowa Army National Guard. He enlists at seventeen into the infantry, then bounces between college classes, army training, disaster relief, civilian jobs, a deployment in Afghanistan?first on the Afghan-Pakistani border, then into a remote valley in the Hindu Kush Mountains?and finally comes home. His stories are about having one foot on each side of the civilian-military divide, the difficulty of describing one side to those on the other, and how, as a consequence of this difficulty, that divide gets replicated within the self.
Series:
Association of Writers and Writing Programs award for creative nonfiction
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