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Within this powerful debut book, three American soldiers haunted by their activities in Afghanistan seek out absolution and individuals interconnection in family and civilian life. Wintric Ellis joins the army when he graduates from senior high school, saying goodbye to his sweetheart, Kristen, and also to the backwoods California town whose edges have always been the limitations of his horizon. Deployed for just two years in Afghanistan in a directionless warfare, he struggles to find his bearings in a place where allies could, at any second, turn out to be foes. Two job soldiers, Dax and Torres, take Wintric under their wings. Along, these three men face an impossible choice: risk fatality or commit a harrowing act of warfare. The aftershocks echo long after each profits home to a transfigured world, where his own children may fear to touch him and his nightmares still keep sway. Jesse Goolsby casts forward and backward in time to track these unforgettable heroes from years as a child to parenthood, from redwood forests, to start desert highways, to the roadways of Kabul. Hailed by Robert Olen Butler as a "[M]ajor literary event", I'd Walk with My Friends If I Could Find Them is a work of disarming eloquence and heart-wrenching intelligence - a debut book from a copy writer to watch.
