National Book Award Winner
Copyright 2015
Taking readers to the front lines of the war in Iraq and back, Redeployment asks us to understand what happened there and what happened to the soldiers who returned. Whether I’m the combat zone or the home front, they face life at the extremes, where happy stories and easy answers provide no guidance or comfort. Brutality and faith, guilt and fear, helplessness and survival—the characters in this collection struggle to make meaning from the stuff of chaos. Written with hard-eyed realism and raw emotional depth, Redeployment marks Phil Kay as one of the most talented new voices of his generation. It is poised to venoms a classic of the war-writing tradition.