Lacerating and lyrical,This is almost a novel in stories, thematically linked like Phil KlaysLindseys debut artfully portrays the American South....Lindseys lyrical, frenetic prose calls to mind Barry Hannah; and, like Hannah, he imparts a grim and pitying hope to his characters.I read Odie LindseysThe debut we hope for: heart-quickening,kinetic, relentless in its engagement with our time.With a searing insightfulness and a dark humor all his own, Odie Lindsey holds up a powerful lens to an experience of modern American warfare that has been largely ignored in fictionthat of female veterans. This is collection about how the battles we wage with the external world are really only half the fight.[A] gritty and ambitious debut collection&Odie Lindsey is an innovative and consummate prose stylist.For readers of