Falling in Love at the End of the World

“In this fine book, Rick Christman carries me back to Vietnam as few writers can. With his tight, compact prose, each paragraph stripped to essentials, Christman offers vivid and memorable snapshots of that horrifying piece of history—the ghouls, the whores, the decadence, the gallows humor, the redeeming moments of human courage and human kindness. This is a book that makes me remember."

—Tim O'Brien, author of Going After Cacciato and The Things They Carried

"These are courageous stories of the Vietnam War and its aftermath—told with an unsentimental and accurate eye.
"Rick Christman shows us how ordinary people and ordinary lives, forced into terrifying confrontations with our capacity for cruelty, are transmogrified by war-and how it is inherent in the human psyche to survive, to find a way to make the unacceptable imaginable, the impossible acceptable.
"The best of these stories are powered by bone-brittling visions of war, in the manner of Brueghel and Goya, stripping to a world that is recognizably horrifying."
—Jonis Agee, author of Bend This Heart and Sweet Eyes