We come to our senses
Subtitle: stories
By: Odie Lindsey
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780393249606
Subjects: Veterans; Fiction
Work titles: Short stories
Description: "For readers of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk and Redeployment, a searing debut exploring the lives of veterans returning to their homes in the South. Lacerating and lyrical, We Come to Our Senses centers on men and women affected by combat directly and tangentially, and the peculiar legacies of war. The story "Evie M." is about a vet turned office clerk whose petty neuroses derail even her suicide; in "We Come to Our Senses," a hip young couple leaves the city for the sticks, trading film festivals for firearms; in "Colleen" a woman redeploys to her Mississippi hometown, and confronts the superior who abused her at war; and in "11/19/98" a couple obsesses over sitcoms and retail catalogs, extracting joy and deeper meaning. The story "Hers" is about the sexual politics of a combat zone" --
Table of contents: title: Evie M.; title: Darla; title: So bored in Nashville; title: Chicks; title: Clean; title: They; title: Bird (on back); title: In the alley that runs behind my rotted clapboard apartment house there are sick cats; title: Colleen; title: 11/19/98; title: Pickle; title: Wall; title: We come to our senses; title: D. Garcia brings the war; title: Hers.