Demon Camp: The Strange and Terrible Saga of a Soldier's Return from War - Tapa blanda

"Jennifer Percy has walked far out into The Twilight Zone and leads us into realms of horror and dread, mystery and high weirdness. I have never read anything quite like it. Are there devils? You might come away from this book thinking it's possible."--Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The Devil's Highway

"This wild journey alongside madness leads Percy to the place where myth is conceived and destroyed, our wars overseas brought home as nightmares. You will begin to wonder how much pain is dreamed and if fantasy might be the way to cure it. A unique, fascinating and always surprising book."--Benjamin Busch, author of Dust to Dust

"Percy has taken a sensationalistic, tabloid-worthy subject and explored it in a remarkably clear-eyed and empathetic fashion, without a trace of condescension. Demon Camp is not only luminously written and exhaustively researched; it's an important account of post-traumatic stress disorder in modern warfare."--Teddy Wayne, author of The Love Song of Jonny Valentine

"Thrilling . . . Percy is on to something essential here: understanding PTSD is one key to understanding our present cultural moment."--Brian Van Reet "The Daily Beast "

"[A] darkly brilliant book . . . Remarkable . . . Startling, precise prose."--Jeff Sharlet "Bookforum "

A New York Times Notable Book

A Buzzfeed Best Nonfiction Book of 2014

A Flavorwire Best Nonfiction Book of 2014

"Demon Camp is the amazing story of one man's journey to war and back. It's a tale so extraordinary that at times it seems conjured from a dream; as it unfolds it's not just Caleb Daniels that comes into focus, but America, too. Jennifer Percy has orchestrated a great narrative about redemption, loss and hope."--Dexter Filkins, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Forever War

"This is the book I've been waiting for. Lyrical, haunting, surreal, as fiercely brave as it is fearsome, Jen Percy's Demon Camp is both damning and redemptive, a shot straight to the hellish heart of war."--Kim Barnes, author of In the Kingdom of Men

A lyrical report on the long-lasting effects of war on individual and national psyche shares the experiences of veterans working through post-traumatic stress disorder at a Christian rehabilitation camp, in an account that also discusses the process through which survivors reconcile their faith with trauma. 50,000 first printing.