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This is Inside the New York Times Booker View.

I'm Pamela Paul.

Matt Young joins us now from his home in Olympia, Washington.

He is the author of a new memoir called Eat the Apple.

Matt, thanks for being here.

Thanks, Pamela.

Thanks for having me.

So, this is a memoir of the Iraq War and before and after.

Tell us a little bit about what is about what you were trying to do.

It's about kind of my journey leaving to war, but also coming back home.

I think it's been, or it was maybe recently revealed to me a little bit, that it's less

of a war story than it is more of a coming of age story that's kind of background, the

wars kind of the background of it.

I think kind of speaks to the experience of a lot of people who joined when I did and

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