All the Broken Pieces

Two years after being airlifted out of war-tornVietnam, Matt Pin is haunted: by bombs that fell likedead crows, by smoke and death, by the brother—andthe terrible secret—he left behind. Now in a lovingadoptive home in the United States, over the courseof a baseball season, a series of profound eventsforces him to confront his past, and slowly, sometimespainfully, heal.By turns harrowing, dreamlike, sad, and triumphant,this searing novel in verse reveals an unforgettableand little-seen perspective on the Vietnam War andits survivors.

Ann Burg worked as an English teacher for ten years before becoming a full-time writer. She lives in Rhinebeck, New York, with her family.