A review by richardleis
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

5.0

The kind of devastating where crying seems so pointless and unworthy, and that only makes you cry harder. The writing is literary, beautiful, and raw. It lets me see my own father differently. It lets me begin to understand how I grew up, how the shadow of a war that had ended could still stay with him and how it could through him affect his children. A book about events alien to me and yet our family history is suddenly more clear, but even more complex than maybe I want it to be.