The reason you're alive

By Matthew Quick

Subjects: Humorous fiction, Veterans, Health, FICTION / Family Life, Death, FICTION / Humorous, Wives, FICTION / Literary, Psychological aspects, Fiction, humorous, general, Agent Orange, Vietnam War, 1961-1975, Fiction, Tumors, Brain

Description: Sixty-eight-year-old David has a brain tumor that he attributes to Agent Orange exposure. He wakes up from surgery repeating the name of a Native American soldier whom he was once ordered to discipline, and decides to return something precious he long ago stole from that man.