The Children's War

With his trademark wit, C. P. Boyko's latest crop of stories explores power dynamics. An army doctor and an ambulance driver enter a civil war zone for very different reasons, new mothers face callous physicians, management and workers struggle for power in a dying factory, a high school teacher maneuvers for popularity, two enemy platoons joke and plot and attempt to destroy one another, and disgruntled students occupy university administration offices. The Children's War moves effortlessly through a library of literary styles, from contemporary realist fiction and episodic adventures to three-act, blank verse plays and polyvocal narratives.