Sadie Hoagland

As They Were

Fiction

“As They Were pulls back the veil on the stark difference between the rhetoric we cloak our soldiers in and the reality of their deployments. . . . If we dare to hold onto preconceptions about what a soldier is or can be or should be, Mobley will shatter them. I admire As They Were for observations that are at times arresting as much for their originality as for their striking prose—this is a book that I will not soon forget.”