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THE RESERVIST

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A punk Army Reservist ordered to deploy to Iraq seeks guidance from his active-duty younger brother; when the brother is killed in action, he prepares to disappear under a fake identity but must decide whether refusing the war means abandoning everyone who still loves him.

2004. A punk kid with orders, a fake identity, and a younger brother who volunteered for the exact thing he is trying to dodge. Loud, profane, and funny in the specific way people get funny when they are out of options.

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War, brothers, and the years afterward, written without a recruiting poster in sight.

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The dead soldier brother, seen from the family’s side of the wound.
When his disabled mother dies, a bitter musician returns to the Missouri town he fled and collides with the father, friends, and dead soldier brother he left behind, forcing him to decide whether grief will remain his excuse for never making music — or coming home — again.
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