Jason Prokowiew's War Boys is an astonishing combination of oral history, research, and imaginative empathy, a tour de force that is both compelling and deeply moving.

—Dan Chaon, NYT best-selling author of One of Us

"Once you start reading War Boys, you will not, cannot, put it down. And by book's end, you will be changed. Jason Prokowiew's memoir is a tremendous feat of research, reporting, writing, and heart work. Never have I read a story that depicts family abuse with such vulnerability, compassion, and insight. This book is a marvel. And this author is an exciting new voice in memoir."

—Alysia Abbott, author of Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father

"War Boys is immense in its scope yet surgical in its intimacy. Across this memoir's twin, aching narratives, Jason Prokowiew pulls off something expansive and delicate: an unbelievable story of both one man's survival and what it meant, later, to come of age in the darkest shadows of it."

—Mike Scalise, author of The Brand New Catastrophe

"War Boys is a riveting and moving tale of survival, trauma, and overcoming the challenges of the past. With cinematic prose, Jason Prokowiew not only deftly conjures his father's childhood orphaned in Nazi-occupied Belarus, but he also, with sensitivity and grace, traces the consequences of these early hardships to his own upbringing in America forty years later. By braiding oral history and memoir with meticulous research, War Boys had me in its grip from page one."

—Edan Lepucki, NYT best-selling author of California and Time's Mouth

* National summer and fall book tour

* Media appearances, podcast appearances and print interviews

* Galleys and talks at various conferences, including ALA, NEIBA and others