Fiction. Titled after the US Air Force song, this engaging debut explores the legacy of the Greatest Generation from the perspective of Generation Y, the fallout of war through the eyes of a pacifist, and the enduring human desire for love, adventure, truth, and understanding. Beautifully orchestrated and eloquently original, each sentence slowly builds upon the next in a charming style both poetic and engrossing. A tale of soldiers and saviors, of burning and bombing, of fathers and sons and brothers and lovers, this is also the story of what we find when we dare to revisit the past.

Author City: Chicago, IL USA

Born in Iowa in 1979, Travis Nichols now lives in Chicago. He is the author the poetry collections SEE ME IMPROVING (Copper Canyon Press, 2010) and IOWA (Letter Machine Edtions, 2010), and the novel OFF WE GO INTO THE WILD BLUE YONDER (Coffee House Press, 2010). An editor at the Poetry Foundation, his writing has appeared in The Village Voice, The Believer, Details, Paste, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and The Stranger. He also edits the online magazine Weird Deer.

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