"Silk Pajamas, Tombstone Eyes is a journey to the
unimaginable. With hard-hitting, straightforward prose, Thom Rock paints a
landscape of war-torn Vietnam unlike any we've ever seen before. The result is
a book filled with honesty, humility, and hope." - S.W. Capps, Author,
Salmon Run
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Thom Rock is a natural storyteller with a funny, edgy, heart rending, and very human story to tell about his uncommon days as a GI/ Papasan in Vietnam. Right about when the war is going out of control, 1968-1970, Thom Rock is getting the field education of a lifetime, which he relates in a fast vernacular in such stories as "Growing Up," "The Bunker and the Cracker Jack Kids" (my favourite), "I own him, now I own you," "B-52 Bombing," "War Basics," and the harrowing "OV-1 Mohawk, We've been hit!" When it's time to come home, Thom is one GI who's had such a counter-war-culture experience-- such a humanizing experience-- that he's tempted to "run renegade... take off [his] military fatigues, jump the fence, split and disappear... Missing in Action." Instead, he parts with his lover, Muoi, and her kids, and takes the long flight back. Silk Pajamas and Tombstone Eyes is a real-life thriller, as exciting and compelling as it is authentic.
Elana Wolff, Author, You Speak to Me in Trees
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