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Brian Van Reet is the author of Spoils, a novel named one of the best books of 2017 by the Guardian, Military Times, the Wall Street Journal, and others. A graduate of the Michener Center for Writers, he has twice won the Texas Institute of Letters short story award. He lives in Austin with his family.

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Your review of Cherry was one of the best things I've read this year. Not really a question, just a thank you. ?

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Great review of Cherry. There must be so many stories and yet, they are all kind of like one story: war sucks for the losers and many of the so-called winners. My cousin was a gunner on a hummer (as a National Guard) and saw action in Mosul. He came back with PTSD and open sores that he thinks were caused by the burn pits. How many books could you write about this war?

Brian Van Reet I am sorry to hear about your cousin's health problems. If you speak to him, I hope you will encourage him to look into the Veterans Affairs Burn Pit …moreI am sorry to hear about your cousin's health problems. If you speak to him, I hope you will encourage him to look into the Veterans Affairs Burn Pit Registry and add his name to the list. He may have already done so, but if not, he has earned the right to receive the best treatment this country can give. I don't know how many books I could write about the war (one, for sure) but there are certainly an infinite number that could be written. Best wishes to you both. (less)

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	Spoils 3.85 avg rating — 770 ratings — published 2017 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War by Matt Gallagher (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Roy Scranton (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Colum McCann (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 3.93 avg rating — 538 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	New Border Voices: An Anthology by Brandon D. Shuler (editor), Robert Earl Johnson (Editor), Erika Garza-Johnson (Editor) 4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“There comes a time for each of us when we realize the truth about the enemy. Which is that he is not an idea, or some faceless demon. He is a man. And every man is much like ourselves.”
― Brian Van Reet, Spoils

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“There was the sense of the existing order overturned, a feeling of wild possibility.”
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“There comes a time for each of us when we realize the truth about the enemy. Which is that he is not an idea, or some faceless demon. He is a man. And every man is much like ourselves.” There”
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“Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

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“Of those who reckon lives against lives, who permit themselves to take life in the name of justice, only the fool believes he always decides rightly. I'm no fool. I'm more like the blind man who claims it's impossible for anyone to see.”
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“but the truth about war is, some people are good at it, and people tend to enjoy showing off their talents. Me,”
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“There was the sense of the existing order overturned, a feeling of wild possibility.”
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