The volunteer : a novel
(Book)

"The epic story of a restless young man who is captured during the Vietnam War and pressed into service for a clandestine branch of the United States government. From the Cambodian jungle, to a flophouse in Queens, to a commune in New Mexico, Vollie's path traces a secret history of life on the margins of America, culminating with an inevitable and terrible reckoning. With intense feeling, uncommon erudition, and bracing style, Scibona offers at once a pensive exploration of how we are capable of both inventing and discovering our true families and a lacerating interrogation of institutional power at its most commanding and terrifying"--,Provided by publisher.