I’m so grateful for Matthew Mullins’s incredible review-essay about I’d Walk with My Friends If I Could Find Them in Consequence Magazine. Find the full piece HERE. The final paragraph:

“This novel, like any true novel of war—All Quiet on the Western Front, The Thin Red Line, Green on Blue—is not in the business of offering solutions. Rather, it questions the very foundations upon which we build our views of others, ourselves, and our friends. We long for the easy binaries of friend and enemy, self and other, good nation and bad nation. Was the Afghan girl an other, an enemy? Was the soldier who raped Wintric a friend, a fellow American? Is the relapsing drug addict the real Wintric or some other person? What about the other veterans, the strangers who walk with Wintric in the Fourth of July parade? While many novels of war focus on redefining the enemy, this novel turns a critical eye on the friend. Perhaps if we weren’t so confident as to who our friends were we’d be better equipped to walk with our enemies.”