Waiting for Eden

"Patiently, and unflinchingly, Ackerman is becoming one of the great poet laureates of America's tragic adventurism across the globe." --Pico Iyer

Eden lies in a hospital bed, unable to move or speak. His wife Mary spends every day on the sofa in his room. We see them through the eyes of Eden's best friend, a fellow Marine who didn't make it back home--and who must relive the secrets held between all three of them as he waits for Eden to finally, mercifully die and join him in whatever comes after.

A breathtakingly spare and shattering novel that explores the unseen aftereffects--and unacknowledged casualties--of war, Waiting for Eden is a piercingly insightful, deeply felt meditation on loyalty, friendship, betrayal, and love.

"The Tim O'Brien of our era." --Vogue

"Devastating." --The Wall Street Journal

"Haunting. . . . Daring." --The Boston Globe

"Heart-wrenching." --NPR

Author: Elliot Ackerman
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 09/03/2019
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.10w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781101971567
ISBN10: 1101971568
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | War & Military
- Fiction | Women

About the Author
Elliot Ackerman is the author of the novels Dark at the Crossing, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and Green on Blue. His writings have appeared in Esquire, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The New York Times Magazine, among other publications, and his stories have been included in The Best American Short Stories.