Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue

Elliot Ortiz is home from Iraq. Like his father and grandfather before him, the eager soldier is forced to unravel his experience as he nurses his injuries and considers returning to the frontlines. Elliot’s mother, a nurse in Vietnam, holds three generations of this family’s soldiers together; turning their city lot into a lush and healing tropical garden. Hudes’s poetic fugue is a unique non-political exploration of the tolls of war from an often overlooked point of view.