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Eleven Days
Knopf. 2013. 288p. ISBN 9780307960702. $24.95; ebk. ISBN 9780307960719. F
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Debut novelist Carpenter, a founding editor of Zoetrope and a former deputy publisher of the Paris Review, tells the story of Sara, a devoted single mother whose son Jason has gone missing after a Navy SEAL operation in early May 2011. (Tellingly, though the raid occurred at that time, bin Laden's name is never mentioned in this suspenseful novel.) Jason's enigmatic father, a supposed Washington insider and older man, disappeared from the family years ago, and so Sara must cope alone. Through her recollections, Sara reveals how Jason chose and then qualified for the arduous path of special ops warfare. Not an exercise in simplistic flag-waving, Carpenter's engrossing, rather somber novel keenly examines an elite contemporary warrior class.
VERDICT A powerful first novel and inside look into the making of a Navy SEAL and a portrait of the strength and courage of both mother and son. Highly recommended.
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