Deployed to Afghanistan, A Young Soldier Faces a Harrowing Choice

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jun 10, 2015

Jesse Goolsby discusses his debut novel, I’d Walk with My Friends if I Could Find Them. Wintric Ellis joins the army as soon as he graduates from high school. Deployed for two years in Afghanistan, he struggles to find his bearings in a place where allies could at any second turn out to be foes, and he soon faces a dire choice: risk death or commit a harrowing act of war.

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