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'Redeployment' Explores Iraq War's Physical And Psychic Costs

Fresh Air
Published November 20, 2014 at 10:09 AM HST

In his short story collection, former Marine Phil Klay takes his experience in Iraq and clarifies it, lucidly tracing the moral, political and psychological curlicues of Operation Iraqi Freedom. On Wednesday, he won the National Book Award for fiction for the collection.

This review originally aired March 26, 2014.

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