Common Book 2019-20: Redeployment: About the Book

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“[Klay captures] on an intimate scale the ways in which the war in Iraq evoked a unique array of emotion, predicament and heartbreak. In Klay’s hands, Iraq comes across not merely as a theater of war but as a laboratory of the human condition in extremis. Redeployment is hilarious, biting, whipsawing and sad. It’s the best thing written so far on what the war did to people’s souls.” —Dexter Filkins, The New York Times Book Review

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New Statesman: "Opening the Hurt Locker"

Amazon.com "Best Books of 2014"

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The New York Times "National Book Award Goes to Phil Klay for His Short Story Collection"

The Washington Post "The top 50 fiction books for 2014"

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