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In our time, if you don’t know someone in the service, military life can feel curtained off from the rest of us. Phil Klay offers a generous window into that world, and into the consequences of our nation’s military presence in the Middle East, both for the people who live there and for the ordinary Americans who serve. Upon graduating from Dartmouth in 2005, Phil Klay was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the US Marine Corps. He was deployed to Iraq during the 2007 troop surge and served as a public affairs officer in Anbar Province. After leaving the Corps, he completed an MFA in fiction at Hunter College. His debut collection of stories, Redeployment, was awarded the 2014 National Book Award for fiction. Narrated with speed, compression, and a mix of humor and pathos, the stories are rich in observations of the psychology of people under extreme stress, genuine courage, genuine stupidity, brutality, and the ironies created by military bureaucracy. Klay, who is the product of a Jesuit education, continually brings them back to the overwhelming moral weight of choices made

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“[The] longest, meatiest and most probing essays and articles presented here share the lasting power of Klay’s acclaimed fiction….Read together they amount to an interwoven, evolving and revealing examination of Klay’s central topic: What it means for a country always at war, that so few of its people do the fighting . . . Engrossing and important.” —James Fallows, New York Times Book Review

“Uncertain Ground solidifies Mr. Klay’s place among the best of an increasing number of writers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan and, while recounting their experiences in combat realistically and unheroically, raise profound questions about the nature of contemporary warfare.” —Wall Street Journal

“The keenness of his observations is unmatched . . . With this collection, Klay transcends his self-description as ‘a writer who was once a Marine and writes about war’ to become more of a philosopher. He uses war to pose urgent questions about political identity and personal faith that will endure long after the narratives of recent conflicts get revised and their terminology fades in

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Phil Klay

American writer (born 1983)

Phil Klay (KLAY; born 1983) is an American writer. He won the National Book Award for fiction in 2014 for his first book-length publication, a collection of short stories, Redeployment. In 2014 the National Book Foundation named him a 5 under 35 honoree. His 2020 novel, Missionaries, was named as one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of the year as well as one of The Wall Street Journal's Ten Best Books of the Year.

Klay was a United States Marine Corps officer from 2005 to 2009. In addition to other projects, he currently teaches in the MFA writing program at Fairfield University.^[1]

Early life

Klay grew up in Westchester, New York, the son of Marie-Therese F. Klay and William D. Klay.^[2] His family background included several examples of public service. His maternal grandfather was a career diplomat and his father a Peace Corps volunteer; for years his mother worked in international medical assistance.^[3] He attended Regis High School in New York City, graduating in 2001.^[4]