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2021 American Fiction Awards Finalist

2021 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist

"Imaginative and often beguiling, like a mashup of Platoon and Gremlins scripted by William S. Burroughs." -Kirkus Reviews

"Nikolich's story shimmers with intersecting layers of identity and fantastical complexities." -Authors Reading

A suicidal former platoon sergeant, sole survivor…

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A dark comedy shines plenty of light with this twisted yet brilliant depiction of a Vietnam veteran addled by war and muddled by a gamut of pharmaceuticals. It would not be stretch to describe this story as a slightly off version of Alice’s latest adventures into a rabbit hole, or gopher hole in this case that leads her to the Cu Chi tunnels of Vietnam where she meets a gopher Chaz, a friend and ally of our war hero/newspaper editor.

This story has many layers of craziness. The dark is quite dark the comedy quite hilarious. Gojan Nikolich pulls off…

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