My Life As a Foreign Country
By Brian Turner
NORTON
In this moving account of his time as a sergeant in Iraq, Brian Turner, whose poem “The Hurt Locker” was the namesake for the Oscar-winning film, delivers a succession of oddly beautiful, appropriately devastating reflections that drive home the realities of war. Turner takes us from training camp to war zone and home again, where, in bed with his wife, he dreams he’s a drone, flying over countries of wars past.
This review originally appeared in our September/October issue of Mother Jones.
