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Kulish launches his clever, affecting novel as a fish-out-of-water narrative: a New York gossip columnist is sent to cover the Iraq war (that, or get fired for a libellous mistake) and is embedded with the Marines. Jimmy Stephens, the reporter, is portrayed as something of a naif; trying on his protective clothing, he "didn't entirely understand why people on both sides were about to die." There is comedy (a dimwitted network ...