The Yellow Birds
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kevin Powers was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University, and holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a Michener Fellow in Poetry. He served in the U.S. Army in 2004 and 2005 in Iraq, where he was deployed as a machine gunner in Mosul and Tal Afar. This is his first novel.
Contents
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
1: September 2004
2: December 2003
3: March 2005
4: September 2004
5: March 2005
6: September 2004
7: August 2005
8: October 2004
9: November 2005
10: October 2004
11: April 2009
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Copyright
The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.
Copyright © 2012 by Kevin Powers
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