" Brother lives with his dad and grandparents on a ranching farm in Eastern Oregon, the youngest of 5 boys who are all off at the high school boarding school or army training. He's not sure what he wants to be when he grows up, since ranching and army (which is what all the men in the family have done so far) are not really his thing. When his dad gets sent out of the reserve army to Iraq, Brother is left to take care of the ranch with his grandparents. This book is contemplative and slow-moving at times, but this first-time author does a great job at dealing with war and love and death in a particular area of the United States that is not often written about. "
— Erin, 2/19/2014