We Come to Our Senses – Stories - Softcover
"For readers of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk and Redeployment, a searing debut exploring the lives of veterans returning to their homes in the South. Lacerating and lyrical, We Come to Our Senses centers on men and women affected by combat directly and tangentially, and the peculiar legacies of war. The story "Evie M." is about a vet turned office clerk whose petty neuroses derail even her suicide; in "We Come to Our Senses," a hip young couple leaves the city for the sticks, trading film festivals for firearms; in "Colleen" a woman redeploys to her Mississippi hometown, and confronts the superior who abused her at war; and in "11/19/98" a couple obsesses over sitcoms and retail catalogs, extracting joy and deeper meaning. The story "Hers" is about the sexual politics of a combat zone" --
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The debut we hope for: heart-quickening, kinetic, relentless in its engagement with our time.--Paul Yoon
Lindsey's debut artfully portrays the American South....Lindsey's lyrical, frenetic prose calls to mind Barry Hannah; and, like Hannah, he imparts a grim and pitying hope to his characters.
With a searing insightfulness and a dark humor all his own, Odie Lindsey holds up a powerful lens to an experience of modern American warfare that has been largely ignored in fiction--that of female veterans. This is collection about how the battles we wage with the external world are really only half the fight.--Bonnie Jo Campbell, National Book Award Finalist and author of Once Upon a River
[A] gritty and ambitious debut collection...Odie Lindsey is an innovative and consummate prose stylist.--Mary Miller, author of The Last Days of California
, but more particular in its examination of the new American veteran.
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Lindsey's debut artfully portrays the American South....Lindsey's lyrical, frenetic prose calls to mind Barry Hannah; and, like Hannah, he imparts a grim and pitying hope to his characters.
With a searing insightfulness and a dark humor all his own, Odie Lindsey holds up a powerful lens to an experience of modern American warfare that has been largely ignored in fiction--that of female veterans. This is collection about how the battles we wage with the external world are really only half the fight.--Bonnie Jo Campbell, National Book Award Finalist and author of Once Upon a River
[A] gritty and ambitious debut collection...Odie Lindsey is an innovative and consummate prose stylist.--Mary Miller, author of The Last Days of California
, but more particular in its examination of the new American veteran.
Odie Lindsey's stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories, the Iowa Review, Columbia, and the anthology Forty Stories, among others. A veteran, he lives in Nashville.
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- PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
- Publication date2017
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