The Impossible Knife of Memory

Parents are veterans of Afghanistan and Iraq and need to know that they are suffering from severe post traumatic stress disorder. He remembered the fear of warfare, including not having a face after the explosion, and accidentally seeing a woman who bombed a house full of women and children. Alcohol addict, he is also violent at home, breaking through the wall, piercing furniture, fighting at the bar and trying to commit suicide. His daughter, Haley reminds him that he was shooting television in the hotel room. There are some curses, teen narcotics experiments, and Haley 's nearly sexual relationship with her boyfriend, but that can not be fulfilled. This book can lead to careful discussion about veterans and the best way to support them and their families.

Haley tried to support her father, an army veteran who was physically and mentally injured. But as they returned to their lives of their late mother, his problem seems to be getting worse - he fought and was laid off by a series of jobs, even threatening his boyfriend I will. Hailey frequently watches her father, but finds a way for her to act around him and ascertains whether he is in a car accident, especially whether she deals with a painful past That is too much for her. Even though the same woman wants to return to her life, she worked hard in order to suppress the childhood memory she abandoned her stepmother.

Families can talk about movies and books dealing with war. Why do you think this is a common theme, competition, and their aftereffects?

Do you think our country supports medically and emotionally our veterans?

Laurie Halse Anderson's acclaimed book contains topics such as rape, eating disorders, slavery and so on. Have you read any of them? What do they have in common with impossible memory knives?

An impossible memory knife begins with an uncompromising introducer of the narrator Hayley. She reads the book in a typical cynical and witty style, saying there are only two people in the world: "zombies" and "freaks". Hayley is neither the warmest person nor the most primitive personality - she is basically your "ordinary" rebellious, authoritative, disliking teenager - but I will gradually add this novel together I like to do. We noticed that the woman 's memory of Hiri' s family was messed up, his mother died, and Trish which is only a small part of the book. As I discover the identity of Trish, the doubts built in these memories will disappear, but that may be because I am expecting something a bit better ... it is explosive. As a matter of fact, the real devil is the knife mentioned in the title, but Hayley's father's post-traumatic stress disorder.

Among "impossible memory knives" Anderson sensitively depicted the devastating ripple effect of post-traumatic stress disorder, a growing and complicated problem which is particularly important in the United States today. After receiving a 5 - year family education with the trucker 's father Andy at home, Hayley Kasin finally had a house due to the torture of war in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, in the public school year, Hailey could not find a new and stable start, but he did not pass almost. She feels lonely by being confused in the sea of ​​students called "ordinary" zombies. "Their shiny teeth smile makes happiness easier." Hailey decided to check Andy after school. A truck odometer to see if he left. She said that he was on a good day (do not forget to take a dog on a stroll and find strange work here and there) or a bad day (by throwing a stone and then becoming drunk and dark) I did not know whether I had

The Impossible Memory Knife (IKM) is a 5 star rating and is very good. Haley is a graduate of a high school in the Albany district of New York. She has received her education of "returning home" to her father who suffered from deterioration of post-traumatic stress disorder for years. The fiduciary mark is due to the fact that the house has been a tractor trailer's driver's seat and has been on for many years until Hayley and Dad lost due to battle, alcohol, or other reasons before becoming a different job. So Hayley had classmates and teachers for the first time in a few years, and she did not handle it very well. Lack of homework, disobedience frequent detention, poor test results, etc. But early on, she slowly established relationships with her neighbor's Gracie, slowly entering under Hailey's skin, while seeing Finland by Gracie, a smart, funny and long-lasting swimmer.