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Also by Siobhan Fallon:

The Confusion of Languages, June 2018
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
The Confusion of Languages, July 2017
Hardcover / e-Book
You Know When the Men Are Gone, February 2011
Hardcover

You Know When the Men Are Gone
Siobhan Fallon

Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam
February 2011
On Sale: January 20, 2011
240 pages
ISBN: 0399157204
EAN: 9780399157202
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction

Reminiscent of Raymond Carver and Tim O'Brien, an unforgettable collection of intercollected short stories.

In Fort Hood housing, like all army housing, you get used to hearing through the walls... You learn too much. And you learn to move quietly through your own small domain. You also know when the men are gone. No more boots stomping above, no more football games turned up too high, and, best of all, no more front doors slamming before dawn as they trudge out for their early formation, sneakers on metal stairs, cars starting, shouts to the windows above to throw them down their gloves on cold desert mornings. Babies still cry, telephones ring, Saturday morning cartoons screech, but without the men, there is a sense of muted silence, a sense of muted life.

There is an army of women waiting for their men to return in Fort Hood, Texas. Through a series of loosely interconnected stories, Siobhan Fallon takes readers onto the base, inside the homes, into the marriages and families-intimate places not seen in newspaper articles or politicians' speeches.

When you leave Fort Hood, the sign above the gate warns, You've Survived the War, Now Survive the Homecoming. It is eerily prescient.

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