![]() Her central characters are men from different eras who had taken inverse paths. ![]() It’s a wide-ranging collection of cultural fragments created by war, including, ultimately, the book itself. ![]() She tells stories in fits and starts, weaving personal narratives in with research on the United States’s Drone Program and concentration camps, as well as performance and visual art pieces centered on the cost of war, with excerpts from books by writers like Susan Sontag and Roland Barthes. ![]() Sentilles structured her book in non-linear vignettes and sorted them into themed chapters. But there are signs, and Sarah Sentilles finds them in the art created during the seemingly endless wars of present and past.ĭraw Your Weapons is a broad work of creative nonfiction in the tradition of Maggie Nelson or Annie Dillard’s For the Time Being that melts memoir, cultural criticism, and research-based reportage together. The United States of America has been at war for almost sixteen consecutive years, but as a veteran quoted in Draw Your Weapons by Sarah Sentilles said when asked what it was like to be home: “I see no sign anywhere that we are at war.” Rarely are images from our wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, or any of the other countries we have attacked in some way on the front pages of national newspapers or discussed on national television. ![]()
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