{"product_id":"9780996877602","title":"Off the X","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"The product of high intelligence and passionate conviction, alternately mournful and gripping, and occasionally hilarious. It's also a ripping good story.\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e --- Soho Weekly News \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author, a veteran war correspondent and former prize-winning reporter with The New York Times, has called his new novel \"asymmetric journalism,\" a new and original genre that melds real-time reporting with literary fiction. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA bright and privileged young American, Micah Ford, is battered by the great tragedies of modern America. He loses his mother, a nurse, to AIDS. His father is killed on 9\/11, and a grandfather dies in Katrina. A girlfriend is murdered in a hate-crime in the Deep South. Micah's biography overlaps his country's: They're both suffering from post-traumatic stress. Both are squarely \"on the X.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnlisting in the Army, he discovers a new clarity, nothing less than a new life, through the extreme violence he encounters during a secret mission against ISIS in Iraq. Torture, love, betrayal, a miracle or two, luck, American swagger, Islamist brutality, and a final compass-reading from valor --- it's all in here, in a book that one reviewer has found \"alarming, poignant and nothing short of brilliant.\" Another critic called it \"war porn, or war smut, something akin to pictures of flag-draped coffins returning home: colorful and descriptive, but also prurient.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hellbox Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49832642806000,"sku":"9780996877602","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780996877602","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}