I'd Walk with My Friends If I Could Find Them

-- Florida Book Award Gold Medalist-- Longlisted for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize-- Medalist (Book of the Year) Military Writers Association of America -- "Symphonic...One of the best works of literature to come from these wars." -- storySouth-- "Powerful." -- EsquireIn this powerful debut novel, three American soldiers haunted by their actions in Afghanistan search for absolution and human connection in family and civilian life. Wintric Ellis joins the army as soon as he graduates from high school, saying goodbye to his girlfriend, Kristen, and to the backwoods California town whose borders have always been the limits of his horizon. Deployed for two years in Afghanistan in a directionless war, he struggles to find his bearings in a place where allies could at any second turn out to be foes. Two career soldiers, Dax and Torres, take Wintric under their wing. Together, these three men face an impossible choice: risk death or commit a harrowing act of war. The aftershocks echo long after each returns home to a transfigured world, where his own children may fear to touch him and his nightmares still hold sway. Jesse Goolsby casts backward and forward in time to track these unforgettable characters from childhood to parenthood, from redwood forests to open desert roads to the streets of Kabul. I'd Walk with My Friends If I Could Find Them is a work of disarming eloquence and heart-wrenching wisdom, and a debut novel from a writer to watch.

Literature & Fiction

Goolsby, Jesse

United States

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

-- Florida Book Award Gold Medalist-- Longlisted for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize-- Medalist (Book of the Year) Military Writers Association of America-- "Symphonic...One of the best works of literature to come from these wars." -- storySouth-- "Powerful." -- Esquire Wintric Ellis joins the army as soon as he graduates from high school, saying goodbye to his girlfriend, Kristen, and to the backwoods California town whose borders have always been the limits of his horizon. Deployed in Afghanistan two years into a directionless war, he struggles to find his bearings in a place where allies could at any second turn out to be foes. Two career soldiers, Dax and Torres, take Wintric under their wing. Together, these three men face an impossible choice: risk death or commit a harrowing act of war. The aftershocks echo long after each returns home to a transfigured world. I'd Walk with My Friends If I Could Find Them is a vital meditation on the weight of war and a humane tale of love, family, and connection at any cost. Jesse Goolsby's fiction and essays have appeared in Narrative, the Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of the Richard Bausch Short Story Prize, the John Gardner Memorial Prize in Fiction, and other honors. A U.S. Air Force officer, he lives in Tallahassee.

Reference

Mariner

Recent high school graduate Wintric Ellis joins the army and leaves his backwoods California hometown for deployment to Afghanistan, where he and his two closest friends, Dax and Torres, face an impossible decision that will haunt their lives when they return home.

I'd Walk with My Friends If I Could Find Them Lib/E

Literary

Blackstone Publishing

[Read by Andrew Eiden] Hailed by Robert Olen Butler as a ''major literary event,'' I'd Walk with My Friends If I Could Find Them is a work of disarming eloquence and heart -- wrenching wisdom -- a debut novel from a writer to watch. In this powerful debut novel, three American soldiers haunted by their actions in Afghanistan search for absolution and human connection in family and civilian life. Wintric Ellis joins the army as soon as he graduates from high school, saying goodbye to his girlfriend, Kristen, and to the backwoods California town whose borders have always been the limits of his horizon. Deployed for two years in Afghanistan in a directionless war, he struggles to find his bearings in a place where allies could at any second turn out to be foes. Two career soldiers, Dax and Torres, take Wintric under their wing. Together, these three men face an impossible choice: risk death or commit a harrowing act of war. The aftershocks echo long after each returns home to a transfigured world, where his own children may fear to touch him and his nightmares still hold sway. Jesse Goolsby casts backward and forward in time to track these unforgettable characters from childhood to parenthood, from redwood forests to open desert roads to the streets of Kabul.

Blackstone Audiobooks

From the author of the critically-acclaimed novel, I'd Walk with My Friends If I Could Find Them, Jesse Goolsby's Acceleration Hours is a haunting collection of narratives about families, life, and loss during America's twenty-first-century forever wars. Set across the mountain west of the United States, these fierce, original, and compelling stories illuminate the personal search for human connection and intimacy. From a stepfather's grief to an AWOL soldier and her journey of reconciliation to a meditation on children, violence, and hope. Acceleration Hours is an intense yet necessary portrayal of the many voices living in a time of perpetual war.

Acceleration Hours: Stories (Volume 1) (Battle Born)

University of Nevada Press

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I'd Walk with My Friends If I Could Find Them

I'd Walk with My Friends If I Could Find Them

I'd Walk with My Friends If I Could Find Them Lib/E

I'd Walk with My Friends If I Could Find Them

Acceleration Hours: Stories (Volume 1) (Battle Born)