
A gut-wrenching beautiful memoir which explores toxic masculinity & the devastating consequences of war on one impressionable young soldier Matt Young joined the Marine Corps aged eighteen after a drunken night that culminated in him crashing his car into a fire hydrant The teenage wasteland he fled followed him to the training bases of California Young survived training & then three deployments to Iraq as an infantryman Eat the Apple is the searing & honest response to those years Visceral ironic self-lacerating & ultimately redemptive Young&s story drops us unarmed into Marine Corps culture & lays bare the vulnerability of those on the front lines & the true if often misguided motivations that drove a young man to a life at war Tender & brilliantly written Eat the Apple is a powerful coming-of-age story that explores toxic masculinity & maps the insane geography of our times