The Yellow Birds the spiritwalker trilogy

The Yellow Birds the spiritwalker trilogyFinalist for the National Book Award, The Yellow Birds is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive in Iraq. "The war tried to kill us in the spring." So begins this powerful account of friendship and loss. In Al Tafar, Iraq, twenty one year old Private Bartle and eighteen year old Private Murphy cling to life as their platoon launches a bloody battle for the city. Bound together since basic training when Bartle makes a promise to

a brilliant and relentless pursuer of justice

“You too might fall in love with its suspense and moving sensitivity" (The Daily News Tribune)

And trouble finds him

even though Arlen's eerie gift warns that if they stay too long they may never leave

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a young girl named Minli lives in a ramshackle hut with her parents

But as Strike investigates

life turns upside down when they are torn from their parents one night and slammed into a secret prison for no reason they can comprehend

we have an effect on ourselves and the way others perceive us

Thrown into a tailspin and questioning everything she thought she knew

funny man named Michael

kids are disappearing