Losing Tim is a memoir by a mother about a soldier son who killed himself. Its not an easy read. But its a beautiful one. Burroway, a National Book Award nominee, welcomes readers to grieve along with her, while also providing a lens into how soldiers, and military contractors, like her son, are changed by their combat experiences. Jonathan Shay, author of Achilles in Vietnam Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character, a highly acclaimed volume on PTSD, and a 2007 MacArthur Foundation Fellow, comments in the foreword, To me, the pain recalls Homers Iliad, in which, as James Tatum puts it in The Mourners Song, the beauty of the poetry is in the killing. Praise for Losing Tim This book is both an elegy and a call to action by one of our finest writers, who addresses us from the deepest place imaginable in a voice that is loving, memorable and overflowing with generosity.
