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Pumpkinflowers nation books will she make it homeA book about young men transformed by war, written by a veteran whose dazzling literary gifts gripped my attention from the first page to the last. The Wall Street Journal Friedmans sober and striking new memoir . . . [is] on a par with Tim OBriens The Things They Carried its Israeli analog. The New York Times Book Review It was just one small hilltop in a small, unnamed war in the late 1990s, but it would send out ripples that are still felt