Meet the Cast
Joe Bonham
Joe is the unfortunate soul who gets called to war and loses the one-in-a-million lottery of getting blown to a stump and surviving. The narrative is made up of his memories and his ruminations on...
Joe Bonham's Family
Bill Bonham (Joe's Father)This dude mostly goes by the name "Joe's father." He also dies at the beginning of the book. But that doesn't stop him from being in many of Joe's memories.The novel begin...
Friends, Lovers, and Others
KareenKareen is the girl Joe left behind. A war story would hardly be complete without one of those, right? Character-wise, we only get a glimpse of her.With, Kareen, it's more about what function...
Minor Characters
ChristNo, we don't mean the actual one (except maybe symbolically). "Christ" is a nightmarish figure Joe conjures up while tripping on morphine. He's conflated with a sixteen-year-old who is let ou...