Your Two Dads

I am given to understand that the author is (was?) more established as a poet than a novelist & while the subject matter - trauma - is quite literally harrowing, the book succeeds as a meditation on healing and trauma, while being a supremely artful & hallucinatory counterfactual novel with enough of the real baked in for this son of a Vietnam vet & Holocaust survivor who remembers living on U.S. Army bases on foreign soil in the late '70s & early '80s. Reading this book felt like hosing down my soul & then laying it out to dry in the warm, loving sun.