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ISBN13: 9781990601712
Publisher: FreeHand Books
Published: Sep 17 2024
Pages: 300
Height: 0.59 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A powerful debut novel about four young soldiers serving in Afghanistan, and the devastating aftermath of war. Winner of the 2025 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize
Finalist for the 2025 Amazon Canada First Novel Award
Finalist for the 2025 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction
An unvarnished, intimately informed dissection of war's physical and emotional derangements. - Omar El Akkad, author of What Strange Paradise and American War
Sixteen-year-old Plinko is attending basic training before high school starts up again in the fall. Feeling adrift from his own family, he moves in with an older soldier, where he forges an unlikely group of friends in the military: the very tall Walsh, who moves in shortly after Plinko does; Abdi, whose Somali immigrant parents often welcome the group of young men over for dinner; and the unpredictable and gun-loving Krug, who is brash and exasperating yet magnetic.
After 9/11, the military prepares to move into Afghanistan -- to go to war. Plinko and his friends have no idea that the trajectory of their lives is about to be irrevocably altered.
Drawn from the author's experiences as a soldier in Afghanistan, Juiceboxers tenderly traces the story of a young man's journey from basic training, to the battlefields of Kandahar, to the inner city of Edmonton, braiding together questions of masculinity and militarism, friendship and white supremacy, loss and trauma and hard-won recovery.
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