A review by birdwatching
The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers

5.0

Completely stunning depiction of a soldier's experience of the Iraq war (which could really be almost any war). Beautifully written, and awful in the way that it makes the horrendous beautiful, and in so doing makes it even more grotesque. Gorgeous imagery of dust (and to dust we shall return) and rivers and sunsets, from the Blue Ridge mountains to the Tigris. Quietly goes about showing how little separates the ordinary from the extraordinary, life from death.