Brandon Caro was a Navy corpsman (combat medic) who deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in 2006-2007. His first novel, Old Silk Road, was published by Post Hill Press. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Daily Beast, WhiteHot Magazine, and others. He resides in Austin, TX.
"Brandon Caro's debut novel, Old Silk Road, is built on a
hallucinatory realism, as if only hallucinations could be equal to
the horror, the insanity, the dark comedy of our ongoing imperial
adventure in Afghanistan. All that is very skillful. But at the
core of the book is a deep sadness only a true writer could reach.
A memorable debut in the most literal sense: It will stay with
you."--John Benditt, author of The Boatmaker
"If Afghanistan is indeed haunted by centuries of brutal warfare
dating from the time of Genghis Khan, as Doc Rodgers, the morphine
addict/medic narrator of Old Silk Road, suggests, then Brandon Caro
is nothing less than a ghost whisperer. His haunting debut is one
of the definitive novels of the Afghanistan War."--Greg Olear,
author of Totally Killer and Fathermucker
"In our era of yellow ribbon patriotism and collective detachment
from America's brushfire wars, Brandon Caro's Old Silk Road should
serve as an IV of truth for any citizen still trying to give a
damn. In tight, gritty prose, Caro taps into deep emotional veins
the way only fiction allows for, and his drug-addled anti-hero Doc
is as distinct a protagonist I've yet come across in post-9/11 war
literature. Care about the consequences of America's foreign
adventures? Read this novel."--Matt Gallagher, author of Kaboom
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