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Jesse Goolsby

Longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize

I'd Walk With My Friends If I Could Find Them - By Jesse Goolsby
“Long after the combatants and non-combatants alike have vanished from this earth, the afterlife of war is a book, war’s only survivor, and every true book about war cries out, Stop, or at least, Remember. I’d Walk With My Friends If I Could Find Them, Jesse Goolsby’s ambitious, multi-layered, brutally honest debut novel, is such a book, an antidote to our nation’s disconnect from our misadventures overseas.”
Bob Shacochis, National Book Award winning author of The Woman Who Lost Her Soul
“I'd Walk with My Friends If I Could Find Them offers a heartbreaking and humane lens into the lives of those connected to war, refusing to avert its gaze when confronted with even the most gut-wrenching situations. Jesse Goolsby recognizes that the battlefield stretches far beyond the demarcations of a combat zone, or the borders of Afghanistan. That said, this is not strictly a book about war—this is a book about the human heart. This is the news, rarely told, of the actual world we live in.”
Brian Turner, author of My Life as a Foreign Country and Here, Bullet

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