Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

About “Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk”

A 2012 novel by Ben Fountain, a satire set in Texas during America's war in Iraq that explores the gap between the war at home and the war abroad. It follows the surviving members of the Bravo Squad through one exhausting stop on their media-intensive "Victory Tour" at Texas Stadium, where Specialist Billy Lynn is asked to join the Dallas Cowboys' Thanksgiving halftime show, an event that permanently changes his life and understanding of himself.