01966cam a2200397 i 4500 362074088 TxAuBib 20181029120000.0 171204s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017055697 9781101947395 110194739X (OCoLC)1014006647 TxAuBib rda Ackerman, Elliot. Waiting for Eden / Elliot Ackerman. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018. 173 pages : illustration ; 20 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Eden Malcom lies in a bed, unable to move or to speak, imprisoned in his own mind. His wife Mary spends every day on the sofa in his hospital room. He has never even met their young daughter. And he will never again see the friend and fellow soldier who didn't make it back home--and who narrates the novel. But on Christmas, the one day Mary is not at his bedside, Eden's re-ordered consciousness comes flickering alive. As he begins to find a way to communicate, some troubling truths about his marriage--and about his life before he went to war--come to the surface. Is Eden the same man he once was: a husband, a friend, a father-to-be? What makes a life worth living? A piercingly insightful, deeply felt meditation on loyalty and betrayal, love and fear, Waiting for Eden is a tour de force of profound humanity. 20181029. Veterans Fiction. Marriage Fiction. Married people Fiction. War wounds Fiction. Burns and scalds Fiction. Secrecy Fiction. Life change events Fiction. Iraq War, 2003-2011 Fiction. San Antonio, TX Fiction. Psychological fiction. T3L