Going After Cacciato

Summary

When a young soldier named Cacciato walks away from his unit in Vietnam declaring he will hike to Paris, his squadmates are sent to bring him back, and the pursuit becomes a journey across continents and into imagination. O'Brien layers memory, daydream, and combat reality so that the line between what happens and what is wished for steadily blurs. The result is a meditation on courage, escape, and the stories soldiers tell themselves.