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A hard and heavy thing, Matthew J. Hefti

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fiction

A hard and heavy thing

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932508117

Matthew J. Hefti

"A soldier struggles with the burdens of war"--, Provided by publisher

Title Page; Dedication; Adumbration; Book One: We Joined in a Fit of Youth; 1.1 Dear Nick, Let's Be Honest; We Were Broken Before the War Even Started; 1.2 My Own Ego and the Majestic Plural; 1.3 Hollywood Can't Make Explosions Like This; 1.4 ... ; 1.5 I Think About God a Lot; 1.6 In a Way, It Was Writing That Got Me Into This Mess in the First Place; 1.7 We Sure Have Been to a Lot of Funerals Together; 1.8 We Joined in a Fit of Youth; 1.9 Lousy Service; 1.10 Court-Martialed Within a Year? (I Showed Them, Eh?); 1.11 Stick Your Fingers in Your Ears and Say La La La LaBook Two: We Carry The World2.1 This Is Where I Hit My Stride; 2.2 Don't Accuse Me of Putting Words in Your Mouth; I'm Just Trying to Learn Empathy or Feel Free to Keep Considering Me an Unreliable Narrator; 2.3 We Should Have Taken Up Knitting Ourselves; 2.4 C'mon! What Should They Expect After What They Did to Us?; 2.5 I Know, I Know; It's Not What You Would Have Done; 2.6 If I Never See the Sun Set Again, It Will Still Be Too Soon; 2.7 This Is Going to Hurt; 2.8 It Wasn't So Much a Crisis of Faith as It Was a Baptism by Fire; 2.9 Shoot Anything That Moves2.10 They Shall Bear Thee Up in Their Hands2.11 The Sword of Damocles; Intermission; Book Three: Of Birds And Blood; 3.1 The Strongest Voices Often Go Unheard; 3.2 They Escorted Me Out Like a Criminal; 3.3 Odysseus Returns and the Blue Star Flag Comes Down; 3.4 If I Had Known, I Could Have Been a Bit More Sensitive; 3.5 I'd Be Remiss If I Didn't Address the Whole Silver Star Thing; 3.6 How to Drink Wisconsinably; 3.7 No, This Is Not a Frat House; 3.8 Chekhov's Gun; 3.9 Did You Think I Couldn't Hear Every Word Through the Vents?3.10 I Swear This Isn't Fan Fiction, but Everyone's Inspired by Someone or Lead Me Not Into Temptation3.11 If This Is Getting Redundant and Relentless for You, Imagine How I Feel; 3.12 You Didn't Have to Pretend You Were Doing Laundry; 3.13 We're Not All Psychos Incapable of Controlling Ourselves; 3.14 A Year Later and I'm Still the Biggest Cliché of Them All; 3.15 Choke Artists; 3.16 Don't Hold It Against Her; She Was Only Trying to Help; 3.17 But Didn't You Know That Eris Was the Goddess of Discord and War?; Coda: Rewrites & Retrospects; C.1 This Is Where We Must BeginC.2 You're No Christ, but You Make a Pretty Good Redemptive ArchetypeReaders' Group Guide; About the Author; Acknowledgments; Copyright