The experience of war - the life and death of combat, the difficulty of soldiers in readjusting to society after battle - has always made for compelling fiction.
Often, though, the novels and movies about war are written from a single point of view.
Writer Katey Schultz took a different approach in her 2013 book, Flashes of War. It’s a collection of short stories and flash fiction pieces written from the perspectives of people on many different fronts of the war on terror - active soldiers, Afghan citizens, traumatized veterans and more. The pieces are, in essence, thought-provoking snapshots of where the characters find themselves at a particular moment in time.
The book was recently honored with an IndieFab Book of the Year Award by a national panel of booksellers and librarians. In an interview which first aired last year, Schultz explains why this the book was the book she wanted to - or felt she had to - write.
