“Until a man is dead, he is not yet done being created” (98). The simplicity of this story of two Fulu brothers at arms in WWI—Alfa and Mademba—hides a complex story of colonialism, culture clash, and the grinding dehumanizing of war. This book reminded me of Chinua Achebe’s ‘Things Fall Apart’ in the author’s ability to reveal multiple stories in layers of beautiful language, language that simultaneously captures the place these men came from and the place they find themselves on the battlefield. So moving.