By combining personal memoir and critical analysis, Lori Amy links the violence we live in our homes to the violence that structures our larger culture. "The Wars We Inherit "brings insights from memory and trauma studies to the story of violence in the authorOCOs own family.

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In this brave, fascinating and compelling book, "a"Amy" "concerns herself with the violence associated with the military, and how this institution of public, cultural violence, with its hypermasculinity, pervades society with physical, verbal, emotional and sexual aggression. She uses her war-veteran father to...