The Importance of Capturing the Intensity of PTSD

"I wanted the reader to feel what it felt like for those Afghans that were waiting through, you know, knee-high, feces, feces filled trenches and 105 degree temperature with their children while getting beaten by a Taliban rubber hose," she says. "And I also wanted people to understand like, to be sitting at the breakfast table with a double amputee who's trying to save the interpreter who saved him on the battlefieldwhile his kids throwing cheese grits at him from the breakfast table" The book is written in third person but switches back and forth between characters' points of view.