Everybody Sees the Ants
by A.S. King
But Lucky has a secret -- one that helps him wade through the daily mundane torture of his life. In his dreams, Lucky escapes to the war-ridden jungles of Laos -- the prison his grandfather couldn't escape -- where Lucky can be a real man, an adventurer, and a hero. It's dangerous and wild, and it's a place where his life just might be worth living. But how long can Lucky keep hiding in his dreams before reality forces its way inside?
Michael L. Printz Honor recipient A.S. King's smart, funny, and boldly original writing shines in this powerful novel about learning to cope with the shrapnel life throws at you and taking a stand against it.
Interested in other fiction related to the Vietnam War? Check out...
- Of Rice and Men: A Novel of Vietnam, by Richard Galli
- All the Broken Pieces: A Novel in Verse, by Ann Burg
- Amaryllis, by Craig Crist-Evans
- Search and Destroy, by Dean Hughes
- Fields of Fire, by James Webb
- Fallen Angels, by Walter Dean Myers
- Paco's Story, by Larry Heinemann
- The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brian
- The Short-Timers, by Gustav Hasford (inspiration for the movie "Full Metal Jacket"!)
- Don't Mean Nothing: Short Stories of Vietnam, by Susan O'Neill (short stories)
- The Other Side of Heaven: Postwar Fiction by Vietnamese and American Writers, ed. Wayne Karlin, Le Minh Khue, and Truong Vu (short stories)