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Dust to Dust is an extraordinary memoir about ordinary things: life and death, peace and war, the adventures of childhood and the revelations of adulthood. Benjamin Buscha decorated U.S. Marine Corps infantry officer who served two combat tours in Iraq, an actor on The Wire , and the son of celebrated novelist Frederick Buschhas crafted a lasting book to stand with the finest work of Tim O'Brien or Annie Dillard. In elemental-themed chapterswater, metal, bone, bloodBusch weaves together a vivid record of a pastoral childhood in rural New York; Marine training in North Carolina, Ukraine, and California; and deployment during the worst of the war in Iraq, as seen firsthand. But this is much more than a war memoir. Busch writes with great poignancy about the resonance of a boyhood spent exploring rivers and woods, building forts, and testing the limits of safety. Most of all, he brings enormous emotional power to his reflections on mortality: in a helicopter going down; wounded by shrapnel in Ramadi; dealing with the sudden death of friends in combat and of parents back home. Dust to Dust is an unforgettable meditation on life and loss, and how the curious children we were remain a

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Author

Busch, Benjamin

Publisher

Ecco : HarperCollins Publishers

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780062014849

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

3.73 / 5 (291 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14