When the ‘war on terror’ comes home

GEORGE, YOU’RE A FUNNY MOTHERFUCKER.” Thus begins “Green Lungs, Purple Hearts, Orange Kidneys,” a story in Jesse Goolsby’s new collection, . The George in question is President George W. Bush, with whom the story’s narrator, a U.S. soldier from Utah, is having an imaginary conversation. As he patrols the streets of Samarra, Iraq, the narrator shares some harsh truths with his commander in chief: “You’re a believer, a rich boy, but that’s not your fault.”