Holes -- The Big Game -- Robots Love Car Bombs -- Trained Stupid -- The Part Where I Have Drunken Sex With a Cowgirl and Later Eat Lunch With the President of the United States of America -- Twenty-Five-Dollar Whores, Victorian Literature, and Humane Killing Machines -- Starving in the Belly of a Whale -- The Kid -- The Cradle of Civilization -- Be Polite, Be Professional, and Be Prepared to Kill Everyone You Meet -- Painting Daisies in Valhalla -- The Shit Sandwich -- Tea at the Baghdad Zoo -- Chicken Coops and Movie Stars -- The Worst of It -- In the Fade -- The Punch Line -- I Flew Over 2,000 Miles Completely Naked -- Purgatory Looked a Lot Like Texas -- Attempted Murder -- Army Ants -- The Blast Supper -- The Life of the Party -- A Bright, Shining Star is Born, Then Fades Out Completely -- Half of 60 Minutes -- Committed -- Dying the Hemingway -- Pearls Before Swine -- The End of Staff Sergeant Sean Davis -- Captain Intenso Rides Again -- The Boys Make It Home -- Still Taking Orders -- The Einherjar -- Break Glass in Case of War -- Flying Sharks and Zombie Squirrels -- Whole -- Terminology: All Those Things a Person Needs to Know to Be a Good Infantry Soldier.
Summary:
"On September 12, 2001, a year and a half after finishing his military service, Sean Davis strolled into the Oregon National Guard's recruiting office and re-enlisted. After dropping out of art school and working a dead-end government job, September 11 gave him a new sense of purpose and direction. Follow Sean Davis' life as he discovers the oddities of a pop-up America in a hostile desert wasteland; loses his best friend in a violent ambush; returns, critically wounded, to confinement in a place that's not his home; deals with the fallout of PTSD and the horror of what he experienced in that war zone; and finally, as he rediscovers art and its power to heal"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.