Battle Rattle and Other Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780692717103)

Battle Rattle and Other Stories brings together Brandon Davis Jennings's acclaimed war fiction, including the bestselling Kindle Singles Battle Rattle and Waiting for the Enemy, along with the novel High Desert Rats.

At the center of the collection is Derrick Vezchek: a boy shaped by the Mojave Desert, a soldier marked by Iraq, and a man trying to endure the violence he has carried home. These linked stories move from drunken adolescence and military restlessness to deployment, friendship, marriage, fatherhood, and the emotional wreckage that follows men long after they hang their uniforms up for good.

Written by an Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran, Battle Rattle and Other Stories is not a patriotic war story or a simple homecoming narrative. It is literary fiction about masculinity, memory, damage, loyalty, and the strange ways war follows people into kitchens, garages, marriages, bars, and childhood bedrooms.

For readers of Phil Klay's Redeployment, Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son, and contemporary fiction about the moral and emotional aftermath of war.

Includes:
Waiting for the Enemy
Battle Rattle
High Desert Rats