Phil Klay's works of fiction and nonfiction have confronted the sometimes dissonant or disconnected public understanding about how America&rsquo;s wars are waged &mdash; and its veterans. The Fairfield University MFA professor and Marine Corps veteran joins Where We Live to reflect on how some public perceptions have shifted in recent months. Klay revisits his debut book,&nbsp;Redeployment, and touches on his latest book,&nbsp;Missionaries.&nbsp;How much do we really know about America's military missions overseas? GUESTS: <ul> <li>Phil Klay&nbsp;-&nbsp;Author and Fairfield University MFA Professor of Creative Writing</li> </ul> <a href="https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/73/d5/06b7bfba4b8bbd10f8655489c033/missionaries-excerpt.pdf">Click here to read an excerpt from MISSIONARIES by Phil Klay, published by Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Copyright &copy; 2020 by Phil Klay. Available in paperback.</a><a href="http://wnpr.org/donate" rel="payment">Support the show: http://wnpr.org/donate</a>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

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Produced by Connecticut Public, 'Where We Live' puts Connecticut in context. Host Catherine Shen brings us fascinating, informed, in-depth conversations and stories beyond news headlines.  We start local, but we take time to explore domestic and international issues and consider how they impact us personally and here at home.