Phil Klay - Redeployment

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First published by The Penguin Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, 2014

Copyright © 2014 by Phil Klay

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“Redeployment” first appeared in Granta , “After Action Report” in Tin House , and a portion of “Ten Kliks South” in Guernica .

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Klay, Phil.

[Short stories. Selections]

Redeployment / Phil Klay.

pages cm

ISBN 978-0-698-15164-2

1. Afghan War, 2001—Fiction. 2. Iraq War, 2003–2011—Fiction. 3. Soldiers—United States—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3611.L4423A6 2014

813’.6—dc23

2013028125

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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