We Come to Our Senses Stories [Hardcover]

Lacerating and lyrical,This is almost a novel in stories, thematically linked like Phil KlaysLindsey writes with quiet confidence and sometimes arch humor that invites comparison to Ben Fountain and Phil Klay but that wouldn't displease Flannery O'Connor. Superb atmospherics coupled with arresting story lines.Lindseys 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 LindseysBrutal, precise, like a bullet to the heart, Lindsey's prose is exactly right for conveying what war does to the human soul. Whether comic or tragic, the characters in these stories feel so vibratingly alive they seem to be whispering directly into your ear.The writing here is nuanced, correct, and felt enough that, for once, Support Our Troops is not political pablum. One might say that in Odie Lindsey's care Support Our Troops is a literary imperative.The 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.Here's an exciting, even thrilling new voice I'm delighted to read, to hear in my head. He's got all the notes, he's all in. Odie Lindsey's a terrific writerpitch-perfect, entirely under control at high speedwho doesn't hold anything back.For readers of