Literary Fiction · DarkTwelve stories by a Marine veteran about fighting in Iraq and coming home
Redeployment
by Phil Klay
Twelve narrators tell what the Iraq War was like and what came after
Redeployment gathers twelve stories about the war in Iraq, each in the first person by a different narrator. Together they look at the Iraq War from the American side. Phil Klay served in the Marine Corps from 2005 to 2009 and was in Anbar Province in 2007 and 2008. He spent four years writing the book, and it is his first.
More about this book
Who
Twelve different first-person narrators on the American side of the war.
World
Iraq during the war, and the United States afterward. Titles include Redeployment, FRAGO, After Action Report and Ten Kliks South.
What makes it different
The author served in the Marine Corps himself, from 2005 to 2009, including a deployment to Anbar Province.
Feel
Grave and direct. It won the 2014 National Book Award for Fiction.
Page count and cover shown for: Selected edition
Further reading
- RedeploymentWikipedia