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Christopher Robinson Chris Robinson, a Boston University and Hunter College MFA graduate, is a MacDowell Colony Fellow and a Yale Younger Poets Prize finalist. His writing has appeared in the Kenyon Review, McSweeney's and elsewhere. Gavin Kovite Gavin Kovite was an infantry platoon leader in Baghdad from 2004-2005. He attended NYU Law and is now an Army prosecutor. His writing has appeared in literary magazines and is published in Fire and Forget.
A captivating coming-of-age novel that is, by turns, funny and sad and elegiac - a novel that leaves us with revealing snapshots of America, and telling portraits of a couple of millennials trying to grope their way toward adulthood Michiko Kakutani, New York Times One of the most revealing novels yet about the millennial generation... this might be their defining novel Esquire Rather brilliant. It's like Franzen crossed with David Abrams... shrewd, funny and heartfelt Independent As bizarre, hilarious and devastating as the past decade ... Simultaneously a coming-of-age story, a war story, and a story of the disaffected millennial generation -- Phil Klay, author of Redeployment Pacy, funny, sometimes heartbreaking... this is a fantastic read Vogue [A] smart, wise and wise-assed first novel. Seattle hipsterville to Baghdad, Cambridge theory nerds and Army grunts, this book has sweep and heart and humor. It captures coming-of-age during foreign wars and domestic malaise, and it does so with electrifying insight -- Mary Karr, author of 'The Liars' Club' Unfolds rapidly, humorously, and convincingly from page one Library Journal Smart and entertaining ... [a] likable, highly readable, double-bylined coming-of-age first novel Kirkus An epic for the 9/11 generation... Chronicles the churning uncertainties of new adults, when everything represents possibility or peril Booklist
