Waiting for Eden
By: Elliot Ackerman
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9781101947395
Subjects: People with disabilities; Marriage; Adultery; Hospital patients; Veterans; Fiction
Description: Eden Malcom lies in a bed, unable to move or to speak, imprisoned in his own mind. His wife Mary spends every day on the sofa in his hospital room. He has never even met their young daughter. And he will never again see the friend and fellow soldier who didn't make it back home--and who narrates the novel. But on Christmas, the one day Mary is not at his bedside, Eden's re-ordered consciousness comes flickering alive. As he begins to find a way to communicate, some troubling truths about his marriage--and about his life before he went to war--come to the surface.