An odyssey of loss and salvation ranging across four generations of
fathers and sons, in the finest tradition of American storytelling.
The year is 1966 and a young man named Vollie Frade, almost on a
whim, enlists in the United States Marine Corps to fight in
Vietnam. Breaking definitively from his rural Iowan parents, Vollie
puts in motion a chain of events that sees him go to work for
people with intentions he cannot yet grasp. From the Cambodian
jungle, to a flophouse in Queens, to a commune in New Mexico,
Vollie's path traces a secret history of life on the margins of
America, culminating with an inevitable and terrible reckoning.
Scibona's story of a restless soldier pressed into service for a
clandestine branch of the US government unfolds against the
backdrop of the seismic shifts in global politics of the second
half of the twentieth century. Epic in scope but intimate in
feeling, this is a deeply immersive read from a rising star of
American fiction.
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