May- Fendrick Library Book Group Theme;
The Things You Carry(& what you leave behind)

O?Brien, Tim. The things they carried: a work of fiction. [1990] 233 pages
Heroic young men carry the emotional weight of their lives to war in Vietnam in a patchwork
account of a modern journey into the heart of darkness. A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The novel depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O?Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. Taught everywhere ? from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writing ? it has become required reading for any American and continues to challenge readers in their perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, courage and fear and longing.
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