As You Were

A hypnotic, brutal, and unstoppable coming-of-age tale—told from inside the shockwaves set off by the Indian boarding schools, exacerbated by a decade and a half spent inside the Armed Forces—exposing a series of inescapable prisons and invisible scars of attempted erasure When he learns his father is dying, David Tromblay ponders what will become of the monster’s legacy and picks up a pen to set the story straight. In sharp and unflinching prose, he recounts his childhood bouncing between his f