I'd Walk with My Friends If I Could Find Them, by Jesse Goolsby
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In this powerful debut novel, three American soldiers haunted by their actions in Afghanistan search for absolution and human connection in family and civilian life. Wintric Ellis joins the army as soon as he graduates from high school, saying goodbye to his girlfriend, Kristen, and to the backwoods California town whose borders have always been the limits of his horizon. Deployed for two years in Afghanistan in a directionless war, he struggles to find his bearings in a place where allies could at any second turn out to be foes. Two career soldiers, Dax and Torres, take Wintric under their wing. Together, these three men face an impossible choice: risk death or commit a harrowing act of war. The aftershocks echo long after each returns home to a transfigured world, where his own children may fear to touch him and his nightmares still hold sway. Jesse Goolsby casts backward and forward in time to track these unforgettable characters from childhood to parenthood, from redwood forests to open desert roads to the streets of Kabul. Hailed by Robert Olen Butler as a "major literary event," I'd Walk with My Friends If I Could Find Them is a work of disarming eloquence and heart-wrenching wisdom, and a debut novel from a writer to watch.
I'd Walk with My Friends If I Could Find Them, by Jesse Goolsby- Amazon Sales Rank: #666848 in Books
- Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Published on: 2015-06-02
- Released on: 2015-06-02
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.30" h x 1.30" w x 5.40" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 304 pages
Review Longlisted for the Center for Fiction Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize "Powerful."—ESQUIRE "Impressive ... Goolsby creates resonant, believable characters with richly detailed lives, people we simply want to know more about."—TAMPA BAY TIMES "Add Jesse Goolsby to the list of promising military-experienced writers including Phil Klay."—MILITARY TIMES "Traveling back and forth through time, Goolsby explores the challenges these men face before,during, and after their military tours, portraying their stresses vividly and palpably. While depicting realistic and personal images of the psychological traumas of war, he leaves...readers to draw their own conclusions."— BOOKLIST "This bracing, riveting debut opens in Afghanistan, and actions there shadow the lives of Goolsby's characters. But it's the accidents, debts, and desires of the home front that continue to wreak havoc as war memories turn into just that — memories — and soldiers mired in the past realize that tackling the future may be their true struggle after all."—SIOBHAN FALLON, author of You Know When the Men Are Gone "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 “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, author of The Woman Who Lost Her Soul "Not only is Jesse Goolsby one of the very rare authors who writes with authoritative insight into the warfare of the 21st century, he does so with an even deeper insight into the profound yearning for connection, for identity, that drives us all. Goolsby is a consummate artist, and the publication of I’d Walk with My Friends If I Could Find Them is a major literary event.”—ROBERT OLEN BUTLER, author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain "Ijust read the most satisfying novel in years, Jesse Goolsby's I'd Walk with My Friends If I Could Find Them. Itis not just a war novel, but rather an earthquake-in-your-soul novel. That art that shakes you down. I am blown away."—MICHAEL GARRIGA, author of The Book of Duels
Review "Powerful."—ESQUIRE "Impressive ... Goolsby creates resonant, believable characters with richly detailed lives, people we simply want to know more about."—TAMPA BAY TIMES "Add Jesse Goolsby to the list of promising military-experienced writers including Phil Klay."—MILITARY TIMES "Traveling back and forth through time, Goolsby explores the challenges these men face before,during, and after their military tours, portraying their stresses vividly and palpably. While depicting realistic and personal images of the psychological traumas of war, he leaves...readers to draw their own conclusions."— BOOKLIST "This bracing, riveting debut opens in Afghanistan, and actions there shadow the lives of Goolsby's characters. But it's the accidents, debts, and desires of the home front that continue to wreak havoc as war memories turn into just that — memories — and soldiers mired in the past realize that tackling the future may be their true struggle after all."—SIOBHAN FALLON, author of You Know When the Men Are Gone "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 “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, author of The Woman Who Lost Her Soul "Not only is Jesse Goolsby one of the very rare authors who writes with authoritative insight into the warfare of the 21st century, he does so with an even deeper insight into the profound yearning for connection, for identity, that drives us all. Goolsby is a consummate artist, and the publication of I’d Walk with My Friends If I Could Find Them is a major literary event.”—ROBERT OLEN BUTLER, author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain "I just read the most satisfying novel in years, Jesse Goolsby's I'd Walk with My Friends If I Could Find Them. It is not just a war novel, but rather an earthquake-in-your-soul novel. That art that shakes you down. I am blown away."—MICHAEL GARRIGA, author of The Book of Duels
From the Inside Flap Can a single minute change the course of a whole life? Wintric Ellis joins the army as soon as he graduates from high school, saying goodbye to his girlfriend, Kristen, and to the backwoods California town whose borders have always been the limits of his horizon. Deployed in Afghanistan two years into a directionless war, he struggles to find his bearings in a place where allies could at any second turn out to be foes. Two seasoned soldiers, Dax and Torres, take Wintric under their wing. Together, these three men face an impossible choice: risk death or commit a harrowing act of war. The aftershocks echo long after each returns home to a transfigured world, where his own children may fear to touch him and his nightmares still hold sway. This richly textured novel telescopes through time to track these unforgettable characters from childhood to parenthood, from redwood forests to open desert roads to the streets of Kabul. Throughout, Jesse Goolsby tackles questions we all face. What is the price of forgiveness? Where can we turn for companionship and understanding? Most of all, what responsibility do we bear toward friends, parents, lovers, children, strangers halfway across the world? When violence threatens to sever the links between us, we must strive for connection — at any cost. Both a timely meditation on the weight of war and a humane tale of family, friendship, and love, I’d Walk with My Friends If I Could Find Them is a novel of disarming eloquence and heart-wrenching wisdom, and the debut of a bold new voice in fiction.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful. Quietly epic, it's a story that sneaks up on you By Nathan Webster I'm always glad to come to books before any reviews or advance buzz has really settled in, leading to preconceptions about what I'm supposed to think. So while this book has gotten some pre-publication notice I really had no idea what it was about, beyond the "veterans/homecoming" story angle.Author Jesse Goolsby has done a very good job of creating a sprawling narrative that deftly and subtly covers decades of time - before and after his three main characters serve in Afghanistan. While it's a "war story" in the sense that Afghanistan connects the lives of the characters, it's really a life story - what got them there, and what comes after. There is nothing easy about any of it. The book's promotional material hints at "absolution," but I didn't really see it that way - the central event doesn't seem so dramatic they would need redemption for it. But, I'm also not sure they were ever looking - rather, they were just living. To me, the story comes down to the costs of our choices, and what we can forgive and what we can't.The three main soldier characters - Wintric, Dax and Torres are mixed with a selection of strong female characters, which was good to see. So I certainly don't think this book is male-focused. That's a big plus, among recent war-related literature that often takes too male-centric a view. These women - wives and children - are equal characters in every measure .It's difficult to do it justice without going too much into the narrative's events - and I just don't want to reveal anything that isn't obvious in the plot early on. I'll say that there were a couple plot twists that seemed unnecessarily melodramatic - but that's not a flaw, just my preference. I understood how they fit into the story Goolsby was telling, even if they were a little much for me. But that aside, the vast majority of the story just sneaks up on you, in how quietly wrenching it all can be.My favorite aspect is what Goolsby did with time - some books telegraph their 'epic' status, and others are stories that you get to page 250 and you realize it's been epic all along, and that's how I feel about this book.Anyone interested in stories from the wars will like this - and veterans themselves will appreciate the honest and often hard look at homecoming that Goolsby presents here. This one is going to get some buzz as its publication approaches, and it will deserve it.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful. A Stunning Debut By knittingmom I’d Walk With My Friends If I Could Find Them by Jesse Goolsby is literary work of astonishing depth and beauty, and yet one that is deeply heart-wrenchingly sad and at the same time hopeful. The story surrounds the lives of three American soldiers, Wintric, Dax, and Torres, each of whom struggles in their own ways, and while each man’s story is told, the book focuses most on the struggles that occur after the men’s deployments in Afghanistan. What I really enjoyed and some readers may not enjoy as much as I, is how Goolsby tells the three men’s stories in a non linear manner, I felt this brought the story to life and made the characters all the more realistic. I’d Walk With My Friends If I Could Find Them reads a lot like a memoir and yet it is a work of gut-wrenching literary fiction. Goolsby’s has crafted a beautifully written and eloquent debut and one I would recommend to those who enjoy well-written fiction as well as those who are in book discussion groups.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful. which I much enjoyed in this book By Katey Schultz I was most impressed by Jesse Goolsby's debut novel because of its breadth. He spans decades of three soldiers' lives (mostly on the homefront) and fearlessly goes into bedrooms, backwoods, and on a few combat missions that few authors can render so precisely and efficiently. Above all else, Gooslby is a master of dialogue, which I much enjoyed in this book, and which also had me laughing out loud from time to time.
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