Benjamin Busch, Dust to Dust book signing

Benjamin Busch, best known for his portrayal of Officer Anthony Colicchio on HBO’s The Wire, will besigning his latest memoir of the Iraq War, Dust to Dust, at Ukazoo Books on Friday, August 10th at 6:00pm.

Mr. Busch will be signing copies of Dust to Dust from 6:00pm - 7:30pm, followed by a reading,discussion, and Q&A at 8:00pm. Food and drink are to be served.

Much more than a war memoir, Dust to Dust brilliantly explores the passage through a lifetime—amoving meditation on life and death, the adventures of childhood and revelations of adulthood. Seeminglyordinary things take on a breathtaking radiance when examined by this decorated Marine officer—veteran of two combat tours in Iraq—actor on the hit HBO series The Wire, and son of acclaimed novelistFrederick Busch. Above all, Benjamin Busch is a truly extraordinary new literary talent as evidenced byhis exemplary debut, Dust to Dust—an original, emotionally powerful, and surprisingly refreshing take onan American soldier’s story.

In elemental-themed chapters—water, metal, bone, blood—Busch weaves together a vivid record ofa pastoral childhood in rural New York; Marine training in North Carolina, Ukraine, and California; anddeployment during the worst of the war in Iraq, as seen firsthand. But this is much more than a warmemoir. Busch writes with great poignancy about the resonance of a boyhood spent exploring rivers andwoods, building forts, and testing the limits of safety. Most of all, he brings enormous emotional power tohis reflections on mortality: in a helicopter going down; wounded by shrapnel in Ramadi; dealing with thesudden death of friends in combat and of parents back home.

“A wonderful book, original in concept and stunningly written.”—Ward Just

“Elegiac, funny, wistful, deep, and wonderfully human, Dust to Dust moved me to laughter and tears,sometimes simultaneously.”—Karl Marlantes, bestselling author of Matterhorn and What It Is Like to Go to War

“Dust to Dust is a work of extraordinary merit. I’ve found no better book of any genre, by any author, sofar this year, and likely will not in the months ahead.”--New York Times Journal of Books