Eat the apple
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Matt Young
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9781632869500
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Military life; United States. Marine Corps; United States; American Personal narratives; Iraq War, 2003-2011; Marines; Biography
Description: Matt Young joined the Marine Corps at age eighteen. The teenage wasteland he fled followed him to the training bases charged with making him a Marine. Matt survived the training and then not one, not two, but three deployments to Iraq. Visceral, ironic, self-lacerating, and ultimately redemptive, Young's story drops us unarmed into Marine Corps culture and lays bare the absurdism of 21st-century war, the manned-up vulnerability of those on the front lines, and the true, if often misguided, motivations that drove a young man to a life at war.