The Children’s War

With his trademark wit, C. P. Boyko’s latest crop of stories explores power dynamics. An army doctor and an ambulance driver enter a civil war zone for very different reasons, new mothers face callous physicians, management and workers struggle for power in a dying factory, a high school teacher manouevres for popularity, two enemy platoons joke and plot and attempt to destroy one another, and disgruntled students occupy university administration offices. The Children’s Warmoves effortlessly through a library of literary styles, from contemporary realistfiction and episodic adventures to three-act,blank verse plays and polyvocalnarratives.