Sonja Yelichs Get Some is a daring departure from her previous awardwinning collection Clung It follows an American marine Edgar serving in Iraq and the responses of his family back home to his tour of doody Yelich vividly contrasts his life with his familys and serves up a whirlwind of perspectives on the war and contemporary American life from The Sopranos to Black Hawk Down YouTube to SUVs The narrative of Edgar and his family begins to fragment through the book as the horror of war deepens a marine loses a leg and a plane breaks its nose on Poor visibility in summer Yelich highlighting the confusion of war leaves a reader guessing as to Edgars eventual fate Chilling funny sad and thoughtprovoking Get Some is the work of a writer pushing the capacities of language to express the potential of violence to erupt in everyday life