Winner of the 2011 Leapfrog Fiction Contest.
A young naval officer crashes his F-16 fighter jet in the South China Sea, forever changing the lives of the five soldiers who find his body. They move through gritty post-Vietnam Detroit with the women they love in this linked collection of psychological drama, sexual escapades, and latent violence tinged with compassion, grief, and love, arriving finally at the death of one man's son in Iraq.
Allen Learst's writing explores an interior war?the war of the psyche fought by all returning soldiers?and their attempts to adapt and survive without the knowledge it takes to heal or alleviate their pain.
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Allen Learst: After serving in Vietman as a combat infantryman, Learst went to work in Detroit's auto industry. He later attended college on the GI Bill, working more than 20 blue collar jobs, and earned his MA and PhD in creative writing. He is a senior lecturer at the University of Wisconsin in Marinette.
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•Under Ice
•A Kiss
•A Sheet, a Clothesline, a Bed
•Places Part Dream
•Shadowboxing
•Snakes and Dragons
•Point Man
•When Water Breaks from the Shore
•Animoosh
•Gondwana