Dispatches from an American Battlefield

Jeff delivers the mail. Every day, up and down the streets of Des Moines, he carries the messages people send each other--the bills and the junk, the love letters and the eviction notices, the chain letters and the secret correspondences of paranoid militias. > > Dispatches from an American Battlefield is a novel of walking and witnessing--a letter carrier's field notes from the front lines of a collapsing republic. Part diary, part prose poem, part prophetic rant, it moves between the mundane and the apocalyptic with the same steady stride: Dogs that bark and don't bite. Neighbors who do. A fiancée in chronic pain. A best friend's dissolving marriage. Militia radio. School shootings. A wedding interrupted by gunfire . . . . > Written fast and hot, in real time, between May and October of 2025, Dispatches asks the question that won't go away: How do you keep delivering the message when the whole system is on fire?

Pages: 216, Paperback, Resource Publications (CA)