{"product_id":"daybreak-9781501177866","title":"Daybreak","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this \"vital novel that arrives at a perilous time\" (Elliot Ackerman, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author), a\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e disillusioned American veteran volunteers for the war in Ukraine to reconnect with a woman from his past.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThirty-three-year-old Luke \"Pax\" Paxton has been out of the military for almost a decade, adrift in an America he no longer understands, haunted by a mistake made in an unforgiving moment of combat. When an old army friend suggests they travel to Ukraine to help fight against the Russian invasion, he agrees, and together they cross an ocean to Lviv, the City of Lions. But Pax isn't merely going out of the goodness of his heart. He carries with him the address of a former love, a Ukrainian woman named Svitlana whom he had known as a young soldier and has been unable to forget. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHis feverish journey through Lviv takes him down winding and missile-cratered streets as he forms surprising connections with everyone from humanitarian volunteers to displaced Ukrainians and ordinary citizens trying to survive. And when Pax gets the chance to save someone dear to Svitlana, he just might be able to correct the wrongs that have wracked him with guilt for so many years. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInspired by the author's time in Ukraine, \"Matt Gallagher has written the first great military-inspired novel of this post-Global War on Terror era\" (Bill McCloud, author of \u003ci\u003eWhat Should We Tell Our Children About Vietnam?\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGallagher, Matt:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Matt Gallagher is a US Army veteran and the author of four books, including the novels \u003ci\u003eYoungblood \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eDaybreak. \u003c\/i\u003eHis work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e, ESPN, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWired\u003c\/i\u003e, among other places. A graduate of Wake Forest and Columbia, he is the recipient of the Tulsa Artist Fellowship, a Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Fellowship, a Sewanee Writers' Conference Fellowship, and was selected as the 2022 Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum Writer-in-Residence. He lives with his family in Colorado.","brand":"Washington Square Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51179958862098,"sku":"9781501177866","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a98c4eb1-a3bb-4b0e-bd66-107bcfd2c19a.jpg?v=1752578049","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/daybreak-9781501177866","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}