Analysis Of The Impossible Knife Of Memory By Hayley Kincain

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In The Impossible Knife of Memory, life for Hayley Kincain isn’t like the typical teenage girl. Hayley deals with living with her dad Andy, who struggles with PTSD. The terrible memories Andy deals with from post war in Iraq makes him unstable and on the road frequently. Five years after traveling around in a truck across the country, Hayley and Andy move back into their home town in order for Hayley to live a normal life and go to high school. Hayley, who has been schooled by her dad and hasn’t had much physical contact besides her dad and his war friends, struggles to fit into her so-called “zombie” high school. She lives in fear of her dad going ballistic because of the struggles he goes through with torturous memories of death of loved

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