Veteran Abrams tells Havreites 'How to Tell a War Story'

"Fobbit" is a love child between "M*A*S*H" and "The Office." That's how author David Abrams best describes his debut novel.

Abrams spoke at Havre-Hill County Library, giving a presentation titled "How to Tell a War Story," Monday at 7 p.m. The bespectacled veteran with a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing will be the first to admit his experience in the Middle East is not to be grouped in with that of renowned soldiers like Marcus Luttrell or the deceased Chris Kyle.

"Letters were my bullets, sentences my missiles. I worked under the buzz of fluorescent lights - I got paper cuts. That was...