Episode 104 — David Abrams

David Abrams is the guest.  He’s the author of the debut novel Fobbit, which is now available from Grove/Atlantic.

Publishers Weekly, in a starred reviews, says

Abrams’s debut is a harrowing satire of the Iraq War and an instant classic….Abrams, a 20-year Army veteran who served with a public affairs team in Iraq, brings great authority and verisimilitude to his depictions of these attempts to shape the perceptions of the conflict. [His] prose is spot-on and often deadpan funny, as when referring to the “warm pennies” smell of a soldier’s “undermusk of blood,” or when describing one misshapen officer: “skull too big for the stalk of his neck, arms foreshortened like a dinosaur… one word came to mind: thalidomide.” This novel nails the comedy and the pathos, the boredom and the dread, crafting the Iraq War’s answer to Catch-22.

And Library Journal raves

This darkly comic novel is a slice of awesome…a true dark comedy in that it reinforces how unpleasant life can be for soldiers, and how ridiculous, funny, and stupid life can be.

So pleased to have David on the program.

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Many thanks, everybody. Enjoy the program…

-BL

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