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“A captivating coming-of-age novel that is, by turns, funny and sad and elegiac” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times) about two best friends as their post-grad lives diverge—one into liberal academia, the other into the American military occupation of Iraq.On a summer night in 2004, prepping for another blowout party in the arty Seattle enclave of Capitol Hill, Mickey Montauk has just learned that he won't be joining his best friend, Halifax Corderoy, for grad school in Boston. Global events have intervened, and Mickey's National Guard unit will soon deploy to Baghdad. But before he can make this stunning revelation, events spiral beyond their control. In the bleary-eyed dawn, Mickey and Hal glimpse their radically altered future, the start of a year that will transform them all. Months later, Mickey struggles to lead his platoon safely through an increasingly violent and confusing war. In Boston, Hal finds himself unable to play the game of intellectual one-upmanship with the ease of his new classmates. When Hal's new roommate, Tricia, and ex-girlfriend, Mani, come between the best friends, Hal and Mickey find that cool irony and youthful self-regard cannot insulate them from th

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Author

Christopher Gerald Robinson; Gavin Ford Kovite

Publisher

New York: Scribner

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781476775449

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Young Adult

Rating

3.47 / 5 (434 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14