Why tell an Iraq war story backwards?

In his latest and third novel, “The Good Lieutenant,” Whitney Terrell writes an unsettling story about a female soldier’s operation to recover the corpse of a kidnapped sergeant during the Iraq war. It’s an addicting epic about disaster and, more important, what leads to disaster.

Terrell is an assistant professor of English and creative writing at UMKC. Read


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