Title: Eat the apple
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.
Subjects: Military life, United States. Marine Corps, United States, American Personal narratives, Iraq War, 2003-2011, Marines, Biography, United states, marine corps, biography, Iraq war, 2003-2011, personal narratives, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Military, Personal Memoirs, Southern California, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
Places: United States, Southern California
People: Matt Young (1986-)