geoffreylittle 's review for:

Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger

5.0

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My fellow one or two percent MALE Goodreads users -- and everyone, actually -- read this! TRIBE is a delightfully astute and accessible conversation on masculine identity in the global West. Junger's care describing recent U.S. military experiences (Iraq, Afghanistan 2002-present) through personal testimonials as extreme periods of blissful community -- super interesting. What is it that happens in these moments of great fear and interpersonal challenge that cannot somehow be experienced and/or replicated another way? Tribe examines this question with a high intensity that never descends into easy answers. Of note, I was left feeling newly empathetic to my two late grandfathers on both sides of my family -- who seemed to know nothing so grand as their U.S. Navy service during the 1930s and 1940s.