We come to our senses : stories / Odie Lindsey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lindsey, Odie, author.

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Veterans--Fiction.

Veterans.

Southern States--Fiction.

Southern States.

Fiction.

War stories.

Genre:

Fiction.

Psychological fiction.

War stories.

Short stories.

Physical Description:

208 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2016.

Summary:

"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" -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Evie M.

Darla

So bored in Nashville

Chicks

Clean

They

Bird (on back)

In the alley that runs behind my rotted clapboard apartment house there are sick cats

Colleen

11/19/98

Pickle

Wall

We come to our senses

D. Garcia brings the war

Hers.

ISBN:

9780393249606

0393249603

OCLC:

921868902