02107cam a2200337 i 4500 248263272 TxAuBib 20151217120000.0 151217s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781503950894 1503950891 (OCoLC)914224479 TxAuBib rda Hyde, Catherine Ryan. Ask him why : a novel / Catherine Ryan Hyde. First edition. Seattle : Lake Union Publishing, [2015] ℗2015. 325 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Ruth and her little brother, Aubrey, are just teenagers when their older brother ships off to Iraq. When Joseph returns, uninjured, only three and a half months later, Ruth is happy he is safe but also deeply worried. How can it be that her courageous big brother has been dishonorably discharged for refusing to go out on duty? Aubrey can't believe that his hero doesn't have very good reasons. Yet as the horrifying details of the incident emerge, Joseph disappears. In their attempts to find him, Ruth and Aubrey discover he has a past far darker than either of them could imagine. But even as they learn more about their brother, important questions remain unanswered--why did he betray his unit, his country, and now his family? Joseph's refusal to speak ignites a fire in young Aubrey that results in a disastrous, and public, act of rebellion. The impact of Joseph's fateful decision one night in Baghdad will echo for years to come, with his siblings caught between their love for him and the media's engulfing frenzy of judgment. Will their family ever make their way back to each other and find a way to forgive?" -- Amazon.com. 20151217. Brothers and sisters Fiction. Iraq War, 2003-2011 Veterans Fiction. Missing persons Fiction. Families Fiction. Domestic fiction. TXJOU