{"product_id":"you-know-when-the-men-are-gone-isbn-9780451234391","title":"You Know When the Men Are Gone","description":"\u003cb\u003e“Gripping, straight-up, no-nonsense stories about American soldiers and their families. . . simple, tough, and true.”\u003ci\u003e—The New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Prose that's brave and honest.”—\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Terrific. . . and terrifically illuminating.”\u003ci\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn award-winning story collection from the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Confusion of Languages.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough fiction of dazzling skill and astonishing emotional force,  Siobhan Fallon welcomes readers into the American army base at Fort Hood, Texas, where U.S. soldiers prepare to fight, and where their families are  left to cope after the men are gone. They’ll meet a wife who discovers  unsettling secrets when she hacks into her husband’s email, and a teenager  who disappears as her mother fights cancer. There is the foreign born wife  who has tongues wagging over her late hours, and the military intelligence  officer who plans a covert mission against his own home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePowerful, singular, and unforgettable, these stories will resonate deeply  with readers and mark the debut of a talent of tremendous note.“Gripping, straight-up, no-nonsense stories about American soldiers and their families. . . simple, tough, and true.”\u003ci\u003e—The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The explosive sort of literary triumph tthat appears only every few years. As such, it should not be missed.”—\u003ci\u003eNew York Journal of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Fascinating.”—\u003ci\u003eO\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e the Oprah Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“[A] searing collection.”—\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Poignant...compelling...likely to inform and move many readers.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Prose that's brave and honest.”—\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Each of Fallon's stories leaves the reader wanting more...compulsively readable and memorable, stories of unsung courage displayed by characters hard to forget.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Denver Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Lovely and wrenching...vivid and elegant...a compassionate yet unflinching portrait of the mdoern-day home front.”—\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Terrific...and terrifically illuminating.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Each story's characters immediately grip the reader.”—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] powerful, resonant debut collection.”—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In this poignant and beautiful collection of linked stories, Siobhan Fallon has created a world of characters we need to know.  These are our wounded, our courageous, our disheartened, our cynical and our brave.  You won't read these stories on the front pages of the newspaper, but still they feel like a news flash about the emotional toll of war. \u003ci\u003eYou Know When the Men Are Gone\u003c\/i\u003e delivers to us the inner lives of families who fight for our country while fighting their own deepest fears and demons. This is a brave and illuminating book.”—Dani Shapiro, author of\u003ci\u003e Devotion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Siobhan Fallon is a remarkable debut author whose first collection of short stories, \u003ci\u003eYou Know When the Men Are Gone\u003c\/i\u003e, signals the debut of a new American talent. I was drawn into a world I had never seen before, and found heartache, courage, and laughter there.”—Jean Kwok, author of \u003ci\u003eGirl in Translation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e“What a fascinating, rare glimpse into the domesticity of war. This is a wonderful debut.  Each beautifully rendered story is braced with intelligence and wisdom.”—Jill Ciment, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Tattoo Artist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e“There is the war we know—from Hollywood and CNN, about dirt-smeared soldiers disarming IEDs and roaring along in Humvees and kicking down the doors of terrorist hideouts—and then there is the battleground at home depicted by breakout author Siobhan Fallon, an army wife with a neglected, deeply important perspective and a staggering arsenal of talent, her sentences popping like small arm fire, her stories scaring a gasp out of you like tracer rounds burning in the night sky over your home town.”—Benjamin Percy, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Wilding\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRefresh, Refresh\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Language of Elk\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Siobhan Fallon's \u003ci\u003eYou Know When the Men are Gone\u003c\/i\u003e is a haunting elegy to those who bear the real burden when our nation goes to war: the spouses and children left behind. She writes with the authority of hard-earned experience, and this collection of stories has much to teach us all.”—Nathaniel Fick, author of \u003ci\u003eOne Bullet Away:\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Making of a Marine Officer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A brilliant work of fiction that speaks a haunting truth on every page. This is an important work that should be embraced by the military community and beyond.”—Tanya Biank, Author of \u003ci\u003eArmy Wives\u003c\/i\u003e, the basis for the Lifetime TV drama \u003ci\u003eArmy Wives\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“\u003c\/i\u003eA stunning debut. Fallon's prose is spare and clean and beautiful, but it is her characters that will leave you breathless...This is a devastating book, and beautiful. Devastatingly beautiful.”—Michael David Lukas, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Oracle of Stamboul\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Fallon writes with grace and intelligence about the army wives at Fort Hood who are waiting for their men to return from Iraq...a poignant debut, written with the kind of love and detailed accuracy that can only come from living behind the barbed wire at Fort Hood...\u003ci\u003eYou Know When the Men Are Gone \u003c\/i\u003eis funny, sad, wise, and essential.”—Rebecca Rasmussen, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Bird Sisters\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Siobhan Fallon's \u003ci\u003eYou Know When the Men Are Gone\u003c\/i\u003e helps close the cultural gap in understanding between military families and civilians. These stories hold a mirror up to the lives of servicemembers and their spouses, and because the tales are beautifully and sensitively told, they spur conversations that Americans need to engage in.”—Alison Buckholtz, author of \u003ci\u003eStanding By: The Making of an American Military Family in a Time of War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eSiobhan Fallon \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eThe Confusion of Languages\u003c\/i\u003e and the short story collection \u003ci\u003eYou Know When the Men Are Gone\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the PEN Center USA Literary Award in Fiction, the Indies Choice Honor Award, and the Texas Institute of Letters Award for First Fiction\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e Her writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Magazine, Woman’s Day, Good Housekeeping, Military Spouse\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Huffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, and NPR’s \u003ci\u003eMorning Edition\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. She and her family moved to Jordan in 2011, and they currently live in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.","brand":"G.P. Putnam's Sons","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305547321573,"sku":"NP9780451234391","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780451234391.jpg?v=1767744756","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/you-know-when-the-men-are-gone-isbn-9780451234391","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}