Phillip Klay will be visiting Manhasset High School on April 22 at 7:30 p.m. for a book signing and to discuss his award winning book 
Redeployment.
Albert Einstein once jokingly predicted, “World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” The war in Iraq was no exception to this paradigm of conflict, nonsense and tragedy. For many Americans, conflagrations in the Middle East were not fought by way of logic, with numbers or coordinates, but rather with dollars and questions. In Phil Klay’s award-winning novel Redeployment, the real war is summoned forth, a war fought with anecdotes and baseball bats, against dogs and white picket fences.
Through Klay’s expert penmanship, the Iraq war is not some skirmish played out on the Fallujan wasteland; it is a virus, spread across oceans and continents: to the suburbs, to Vietnam, to Amherst, even to an American Eagle Outfitters. Klay tells the stories of several different protagonists in vignette-style, shifting perspective on the war between civilians, military personnel and the ambiguous “in-between” faced by many veterans. Here we see the “real” war, where soldiers shoot dogs to stop them from feeding on corpses, and where former vets feel trapped within the walls of clothing store outlets.
Klay’s novel has won numerous accolades, including the 2014 National Book Award for Fiction. Copies of Redeployment will be available for purchase and signing on a first come, first serve basis.
