漫画家杰斯·鲁利夫森花了五年时间走遍全国，采访参加过伊拉克战争和阿富汗战争的退伍军人，从乔治亚州的餐桌到纽约市的图书馆，从密西西比州的潜水酒吧到佛蒙特州的后门廊。她发现，士兵在战争中的真实经历与流行媒体如《猎杀本·拉登》或《美国狙击手》所描述的截然不同。在这些有插图的采访中，鲁利夫森分享了男性、女性和非二元性的退伍军人的故事，他们努力将自己的战时经历与战后生活协调起来。身份是这些故事的核心，他们纠结于自己的性别、种族，以及他们目睹和引发的暴行。在这本富有同情心、富有探索性的书中，鲁利夫森揭示了美国无休止地卷入战争是如何影响参战人民的心理的。
Cartoonist Jess Ruliffson spent five years traveling across the country interviewing veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, from kitchen tables in Georgia and libraries in New York City to dive bars in Mississippi and back porches in Vermont. What she finds is that the real experience of soldiers at war is a far cry from depictions in popular media like Zero Dark Thirty or American Sniper. In these illustrated interviews, Ruliffson shares the stories of men, women, and non-binary ex-soldiers who struggle to reconcile their wartime experiences with their postwar lives. Identity lies at the heart of these stories, as they grapple with their gender, their race, and the brutality they've witnessed and caused. In this compassionate, probing book, Ruliffson reveals how America's endless entanglement in wars have affected the psyches of the people who wage them.
