Onward and Upward

RECENTLY READ - Dirty Work by Larry Brown

I am almost out of Larry Brown books to read, and they just keep getting better. I am going to have to re-read Big Bad Love to see if it holds at the end of this.

Dirty Work is basically a transcription of a conversation between two horrifically wounded Vietnam vets one night in a VA hospital. They talk about their lives, the war, the women they have been with, and why God does certain things to people. I laughed out loud several times at their jokes and was absolutely stunned by the shocking conclusion. This is one of those books that takes a while to process.

Pat Conroy was dead on when he said “Larry Brown writes like a force of nature.”