The Things They Carried
Tim O'Brien • 1990
Devastation Rating
war trauma grief loss literary fiction
Our Take
O'Brien makes lying truthful and truth unbearable. These stories about Vietnam carry the weight of everything — literal and emotional — and blur the line between what happened and what it felt like. A book that interrogates itself and still wounds you. The things they carried included everything you cannot put down.
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