Demon Camp: A Soldier's Exorcism (27 page)

Thank you to my incredible teachers throughout the years: David Bain, Susan Lohafer, Bonnie Sunstein, Patricia Foster, John D’Agata, Robin Hemley, Michelle Hunevan, David Hamilton, Andrew Sean Greer, Ethan Canin, Samantha Chang. Thank you to Connie Brothers, Deb West, and Jan Zenisek.

Thank you to Dina Nayari for your encouragement during hard times. One day I will get ice cream with you. Thank you to my reader Kerry Howley, who is brilliant beyond words and can take a razor blade to a manuscript like no one else. Most of all, I’m indebted to my friend and reader Kyle Minor not only for his wisdom and contagious love of the written word but because he made it possible to go on when it no longer seemed possible.

Thank you to the best brother I could ever ask for, Benjamin Percy, whose love and support sustain me. And to my amazing sister-in-law, Lisa. I’m so grateful for your wisdom and strength. And to my parents, who have never once doubted a single dream of mine.

While researching this book, I consulted the following works:
In the Devil’s Snare
by Mary Beth Norton;
Lone Survivor
by Marcus Luttrell;
Trauma and Recovery
by Judith Herman;
The Female Malady
by Elaine Showalter; “PTSD in
DSM-III
: A Case in the Politics of Diagnosis and Disease” by C. J. Wilbur;
Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History
by Cathy Caruth;
Beyond the Pleasure Principle
by Sigmund Freud;
The Origin of Consciousness in the Bicameral Mind
by Julian Jayne;
Victory Point
by Ed Darack;
Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming
and
Achilles in Vietnam
by Jonathan Shay;
On Killing
by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman; “Memories of Iraq haunted soldier until suicide” by Halimah Abdullah,
McClatchy Report
, May 25, 2008; “Healing for Peace: Traditional Healers and Post-War Reconstruction in Southern Mozambique” by Alcinda Manuel,
Journal of Peace Psychology
, 1997;
Spirit Possession and Exorcism: History, Psychology, and Neurobiology
by Patrick McNamara, Ph.D.

Thank you to Captain Brady, who shared with me his story of Operation Red Wings. I’m grateful to everyone who gave hours of their time to be interviewed for this book.

© MICHAEL KREISER

JENNIFER PERCY
is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she received a Truman Capote Fellowship in fiction. She also received an Iowa Arts Fellowship from Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program. Winner of a Pushcart Prize and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, her work has appeared in a number of magazines, including
Harper’s, The New Republic,
and
The Oxford American.
She teaches writing at New York University.

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