Undesirable

“Written by an accomplished and highly regarded author, the warring emotions of devotion, love, grief, and raw anger that emanate from the pages of Undesirable are a poignant reminder of the collateral damage that’s suffered by the families of servicemembers who go to war.” * The VVA Veteran *
“Beneath the gripping narrative of a single man battling the opaque impenetrable military bureaucracy during wartime is testimony of a father’s pure devotion and unrelenting love for his child.” – Maureen Stanton, author of The Murmur of Everything Moving: A Memoir
“Undesirable is a poignant examination of duty: the author’s father’s to his son, her brother’s to his country, society’s to those who serve, and her own obligation to her father’s memory. This book reminds a new generation that wars fought far away still exact bitter collateral damage from everyone they touch back home.” – Paula Becker, author of A House on Stilts: Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction
“A moving tale of a father’s love, the haze of war, and the grip of addiction. Kalpakian has written a testament to her family’s determination and a searing condemnation of the system that fails our veterans again and again. Her discovered cache of documents is a treasure map to a lost period in her family’s—and America’s—history. You won’t be able to look away.” – Jessica Pearce Rotondi, author of What We Inherit: A Secret War and a Family’s Search for Answers
“As heartbreaking as it is infuriating, Undesirable is further proof that for some soldiers—and those soldiers’ families—the war is never over.” – Stewart O’Nan, author of The Names of the Dead and The Vietnam Reader

Laura Kalpakian is the author of Memory into Memoir: A Writer’s Handbook (UNM Press), a memoir, sixteen novels, and five prize-winning collections of short fiction. She lives in the Pacific Northwest.

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