Dead In Iraq

A stereoscopic study of battlefield carnage and suburban aspirations - of the chaos of roadside explosions abroad and the masquerade of normality at home - Eve Ottenbergs stingingly detailed stately paced Dead in Iraq is an elegy suffused with a sense of loss and fortified with a quiet fury over lives destroyed dreams dashed bonds severed. Its a novel about what happens under the noise of headline news and how the lives of the survivors are lived after those headlines fade - the silent invisible true casualty toll of war. James Wolcott Vanity Fair columnist and author of the novel The Catsitters Eve Ottenberg not only knows how to tell a story but brings you so far inside that itll stay with you. Nat Hentoff Village Voice columnist