War Porn

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By Roy Scranton *16

Published Nov. 3, 2016

War Porn (Soho Press) is Roy Scranton *16’s first novel. It follows the lives of a restless young woman at an end-of-summer barbecue in Utah, an American soldier in Baghdad, and Qasim al-Zabadi, and Iraqi math professor who faces the U.S. invasion of his country with fear and denial. Scranton served in Iraq during a 14-month deployment.

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