by Tim O'Brien
First published 2009
They carry more than rifles - letters, photos, pebbles, even grief. Tim O'Brien's short stories plunge us into the Vietnam War, where young draftees struggle to survive both combat and the weight of their own humanity. As they traverse jungles and face death, the true things they carry are their hopes, fears, and memories that will haunt them forever.
Genres: fiction, literary-fiction, american-fiction, historical-fiction, 20th-century, war
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Vietnam
Period: Vietnam War
270 pages · Hardcover · Recorded Books
Content warnings: death, graphic-violence, war