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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hamilton, Masha.

What changes everything / Masha Hamilton.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-1-60953-091-4

1. Afghan War, 2001—Casualties—Fiction. 2. Veterans'

families—United States—Fiction. 3. Life change events—Fiction.

4. Families—Afghanistan—Fiction. 5. Epistolary fiction. I. Title.

PS3558.A44338W48 2013

813'.54—dc23

2012039096

1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2

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For those who were changed

part one

You don't need a war.

You don't need to go anywhere.

It's a myth: if you hurl

Yourself at chaos

Chaos will catch you.

— E l i z a G r i s w o l d

Beirut. Baghdad. Sarajevo.

Bethlehem. Kabul. Not of course here.

— A d r i e n n e R i c h