Things They Carried the twins possess supernormal abilities--making

the twins possess supernormal abilities--making them valuable to their manipulative aunt Alia

how metaphor advanced Homo sapiens' ability to formulate abstract concepts

Spanning six decades

and how might we recognize it

Things They Carried the twins possess supernormal abilities--making"O'Brien has written a vital, important book a book that matters not only to the reader interested in Vietnam, but to anyone interested in the craft of writing as well." Michiko Kakutani, New York Times A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling.