The Yellow Birds doesn't feel like something I can critique, it is emotive and beautifully written but feels too real and too possible.
Kevin Powers is a poet and served in the US army in Iraq in 2004 and 2005. When the novel came out and I was still working at Waterstones, I remember reading that he had set out to write something which conveys the feeling of war. It ends on hope and is certainly worth reading.
Thank you Sceptre for the proof. I think Seven Years in Tibet, by Heinrich Harrer is next.
