![]() ![]() ![]() Travis' present-tense narration puts readers directly into his uneasy psyche he only gradually reveals to himself as well as readers the extent of the damage he has taken in the desert. An unlikely encounter with Harper, a girl he humiliated in middle school, gives him a sense that, maybe, a normal life might be something he can shoot for. At least when he was with his unit, they all understood how their shared hellish experience has affected them. The only thing that's normal is that his father, an ex–football player who bullied Travis mercilessly into playing the game, still seems to hate his guts. ![]() His friends don't understand why he can't just slide back into his stupid pre-Afghanistan life. His girlfriend is now sleeping with his little brother, a smug, self-interested bastard. Travis is trying hard to pretend everything is normal, but there's nothing normal about this little chunk of life at his former home in Florida. An affecting look at the experience of one teen soldier’s experience on leave from Afghanistan. ![]()
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