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Waiting for Eden



by
Elliot Ackerman

Edition
Hardcover edition
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Imprint
Knopf (Adult)
ISBN
9781101947395

Awards and Honors
2019 Indies Choice Award Finalist, Book of the Year - Adult Fiction
Library Journal Best Books, Fiction - 2018
POTENTIALLY SENSITIVE AREAS
Illustrations/Images: Disturbing Imagery, Violence: War/Harsh Realities of War, Language: Strong Language, Sexual Content: Strong Sexual Content/Themes, Violence: Mild Violence
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Eden Malcom lies in a bed, unable to move or to speak, imprisoned in his own mind. His wife Mary spends every day on the sofa in his hospital room. He has never even met their young daughter. And he will never again see the friend and fellow soldier who didn’t make it back home—and who narrates the novel. But on Christmas, the one day Mary is not at his bedside, Eden’s re-ordered consciousness comes flickering alive. As he begins to find a way to communicate, some troubling truths about his marriage—and about his life before he went to war—come to the surface. Is Eden the same man he once was: a husband, a friend, a father-to-be? What makes a life worth living? A piercingly insightful, deeply felt meditation on loyalty and betrayal, love and fear, Waiting for Eden is a tour de force of profound humanity.

POTENTIALLY SENSITIVE AREAS
Illustrations/Images: Disturbing Imagery, Violence: War/Harsh Realities of War, Language: Strong Language, Sexual Content: Strong Sexual Content/Themes, Violence: Mild Violence

Details

Format

Print

Page Count

192

Trim Size

7 1/4" x 4 1/2"

Dewey

F

AR

0: points 0

Lexile

950L

Genre

Fiction

Scholastic Reading Counts

0

JLG Release

Nov 2018

Book Genres


Topics

Iraq War (2003– ). Veterans. Traumatic injury. Families. Marriage.

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Praise & Reviews

Starred or favorable reviews have been received from these periodicals:

Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews*, Publishers Weekly*, Booklist*

Praise & Reviews

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