{"product_id":"the-longer-we-were-there-a-memoir-of-a-part-time-soldier-paperback","title":"The Longer We Were There: A Memoir of a Part-Time Soldier - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSteven Moore\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe war in Afghanistan creates an urgency for telling stories--between soldiers, as they hand off missions to each other, and between soldiers and civilians, trying to explain what is going on--while also denying a lot of the context that is important for the telling of that story. The landscape is so mountainous and isolating that one incident or anecdote might not fit into a bigger picture beyond itself. A patrol may have no effect on the one that comes next. The war has ground itself into such a stasis that it is hard to see movement or plot. Yet we're there. We have to say something. We have to be accountable, even though the circumstances complicate the ability to talk about it while simultaneously creating a constant yearning to do so. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Longer We Were There \u003c\/i\u003efollows a part-time soldier's experience over seven years in the Iowa Army National Guard. He enlists at seventeen into the infantry, then bounces between college classes, army training, disaster relief, civilian jobs, a deployment in Afghanistan--first on the Afghan-Pakistani border, then into a remote valley in the Hindu Kush Mountains--and finally comes home. His stories are about having one foot on each side of the civilian-military divide, the difficulty of describing one side to those on the other, and how, as a consequence of this difficulty, that divide gets replicated within the self.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSTEVEN MOORE was born and raised in southeast Iowa and served seven years in the Iowa National Guard. His essays have appeared or are forthcoming in the \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e online, the \u003ci\u003eGeorgia Review\u003c\/i\u003e, N\u003ci\u003eorth American Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNinth Letter\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e BOAAT\u003c\/i\u003e, among other publications. He and his wife live in Corvallis, Oregon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 15, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47468523192573,"sku":"9780820355665","price":33.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/RjdiR25FaGNrZ2g2NnV2cjROeVdCZz09.webp?v=1777290346","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/the-longer-we-were-there-a-memoir-of-a-part-time-soldier-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}