One of the most important books I've ever read. A war book that is about the unreality of war, the inability to really tell a war story in a way that truly encapsulates the important things, and in the end a book about the power of storytelling, about keeping the people we love alive in our stories. 
 Even if those stories only exist in our heads. 
 A book about what they carried, in their packs and in the minds and in their hearts. What they carried in the war and after the war. The things they carried and how they were and weren't defined by those things. 
 A book about the story of being human.