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A gut-wrenching, beautiful memoir which explores harmful masculinity and the disastrous consequences of battle using one impressionable young soldier Matt Young joined the Sea Corps aged 18, following a drunken evening that culminated in him crashing his car into a hearth hydrant. The teenage wasteland he fled followed him to the training bases of California. Young survived training and then three deployments to Iraq as an infantryman. Eat the Apple is the searing and honest respond to those years. Visceral, ironic, self-lacerating and ultimately redemptive, Young's tale drops us unarmed into Sea Corps culture and lays bare the vulnerability of these on the front lines and the real, if often misguided, motivations that drove a man to a life at battle. Sensitive and brilliantly written, Eat the Apple is a powerful coming-of-age tale that explores harmful masculinity and maps the insane geography of the times.
