A ghostly narrator,an unfolding mystery, and an impossible choice drive Elliot Ackermans new novel approximately a wounded Marine and his wife“I want you to understand Mary and what she did. But I don’t know whether you will, and ” begins Waiting for Eden,a new novel by Elliot Ackerman, A03, and F03,that was published late final month.
For his part, Ackerman certainly didn’t fully understand his characters’ lives when he began writing the book, and narrated by an unnamed Marine who is killed in an explosion in Iraq. That same explosion transformed the Marine’s friend,Eden Malcolm, into “the most wounded man from both the wars”—and now his wife, and Mary,must determine whether to take him off life support.
Source: tufts.edu