We Are Called to Rise

We Are Called to Rise

by Laura McBride
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Publication Date: 03/07/2014

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An accessible, beautifully crafted and heartbreakingly topical novel about PTSI and the unseen effects of global conflict on ordinary lives.


Beyond the bright lights and casinos lies the real Las Vegas, a forces town. In the predawn hours, a woman's marriage crumbles with a single confession. Across the city, Bashkim, the young son of an immigrant family, observes how they are struggling to get by in the land of opportunity. Three thousand miles away on the other side of the United States, a soldier, recently returned from active service in Iraq, wakes up in hospital with the feeling he's done something awful.


In Laura McBride's heartbreaking and authentic novel, these disparate lives are brought together by one split-second choice; this is a story about families, the ones we are born to and the ones we choose to make. Faced with seemingly insurmountable loss, each person must decide whether to give in to despair, or to find the courage and resilience to rise.


'A powerful story of the way in which war detonates far from battlefields, exploding lives in a single irrevocable moment. We Are Called to Risereverberated long after I'd put it down. I can't stop thinking about it' Sarah Blake, The Postmistress


'A haunting and unforgettable debut' Marie Claire


'Compelling, emotional and heart-breaking' Sun


'Packs a raw, emotional power' Sunday Mirror


'Like Donna Tartt's… The Goldfinch, it strips a layer of gloss off the Las Vegas myth by moving to the families populating suburbia' Grazia

ISBN:
9781471132605
9781471132605
Category:
Fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
03-07-2014
Language:
English
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster UK

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