{"product_id":"the-chicago-east-india-company-paperback","title":"The Chicago East India Company - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChristopher Lyke\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePUSHCART-NOMINATED FICTION ABOUT POST-9\/11 AMERICA FROM AN AMERICAN VETERAN\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile America carried on with Pax Americana, a generation of men were asked to watch children suffer without as much as a flinch, then return home and continue as America has for decades. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the men returned, they brought with them unexpected cargo that is shaping the future of America in unintended ways. In \u003cem\u003eThe Chicago East India Company, \u003c\/em\u003e a series of short stories and vignettes walk the reader through the consequences of two decades of war, and the attitudes it creates. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn eighteen-year-old realizes his mortality and is punished for it by his peers;\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA soldier returns from the wars only to realize he's teaching the colonized in his own city;\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA young couple go to Central America and see the effects of the West on class and opportunity;\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMembers of a platoon hunt to find a traitorous Afghan spy;\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA man spends his days adhering to a strict and ridiculous routine to ward off the bad magic that is always around the corner.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLyke's setting shifts in time and place but forever casts the main character of \u003cem\u003eThe Chicago East India Company\u003c\/em\u003e as someone trying to maintain his sanity, his humanity, and his kindness as the state and its bureaucratic inefficiencies unknowingly try to take them away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the tradition of Camus, Orwell or Steinbeck, Lyke's work illuminates human nature and seeks the truth hidden under layers of grit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.23 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 12, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43157394620479,"sku":"9781990644221","price":17.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/ISeHNdxSvW9781990644221.webp?v=1776980830","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-chicago-east-india-company-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}