IR VERDICT:
FINDING ST. LO contains three memoirs: two are strikingly different accounts about WWII combat in France–written long after the war by the editor’s grandfather, a combat leader–and a medic’s emotional wartime diary written on scraps of paper that he stored in his helmet. The third memoir– interspersed throughout the book–is comprised of the editor’s reflections of striving to understand multi-generational family dysfunction as a consequence of his grandfather’s untreated post-traumatic stress. While readers may find the structure of the book to be awkward, the insights are invaluable.