Lucius Shepard's "Life During Wartime"

I am so ill-equipped to discuss books. I have neither the tools nor the mindset to analyze them on any sort of rhetorical level or textual level. My instinct is always to talk about what the book made me think about, which is how a post on "Breakfast at Tiffany's" turns into a post about how annoying it is that we can't kill dogs.

I finally finished this…