WORD for WORD-Siobhan Fallon’s You Know When the Men Are Gone two stories The Last Stand & Gold Star

WORD for WORD performs The Last Stand & Gold Star, stories from Siobhan Fallon’s extraordinary debut novel You Know When the Men Are Gone. An intimate look at life through the eyes of families of soldiers deployed to Iraq-this is not the war we know. Described as “gripping,straight-up, no-nonsense stories" NYTimes, Fallon’s characters are alive & real, telling deep emotional truths about the inner lives of those who fight for our country and the emotional toll of war, a mirror of a world.