Friday, January 31, 2014

The Free by Willy Vlautin

The Free by Willy Vlautin. 320 pages.
I was able to get a free ARC of this book at ALA Midwinter last week. It was the only thing that I had with me on a bus ride back to the hotel, so I started reading. Leroy Kervin wakes up, and his mind is clear and he can remember things for the first time in years. He can remember everything that happened before the roadside bomb exploded in Iraq, and everything that has happened to him since. He also recalled what his mind has been like in the time since the explosion, "when every time he closed his eyes it felt like he was drowning in mud."
Leroy is terrified that this clarity is an illusion, that if he goes back  to sleep, when he awakes he will be lost in the fog again
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