Although this story seems surreal, it is probably an accurate account of how soldiers going off to Iraq and Afghanistan as medics were trained to deal with battlefield injuries by practicing on pigs. Of course, attachment takes place making the ordeal even harder. Many of the men are in redeployment and have battle scars and trauma themself.
At the same time, our protagonist is dealing with a wife traumatized by childhood abuse as she's about to have a baby.
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And of course Prexy Excrement-for-Brains has been stirring more of his brown matter in the area so we get more of that.
I finished the Ed Hoch (somewhat disappointing as the main characters were mostly ciphers) and Colm Toibin collections.
Currently reading the latest Martin Edwards-edited British Library collection.
There have been very few times in my lifetime that we were not at war.
I have a Toibin collection on my shelf but I have mostly read the novels.
I liked BROOKLYN and the sequel (though not as much).
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