Description

A devastating picture of battle in most its violence, terror, and mindlessness, this remarkable book is created in beautifully cadenced writing. A combat medic in Vietnam encounters the mayhem of battle, set from the relaxing moments of family living home in small town America. This child's rite of passage is tracked through rainforest fight to malaria-induced temperature thoughts for the purgatory of existence in military-occupied Saigon. After returning home from battle to remain together with his grandmother, he confronts their own broken individual background and the mystical individual convenience of restoration.