"Tribe"

“This book is one of my favorite books by one of my favorite authors,” says Neil McCormick.

Sebastian Junger is right up there with John Krakauer and Hunter S. Thompson on my Mount Rushmore of authors. With Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging, he brings an amazing amount of perspectives to how we live as a community, the strength of women in native cultures and how distress brings us together.

Tribe is about what we can learn about ourselves and our communities, by observing how tribal cultures are made up and the loose sets of rules that help them exist. I often think about how racial and political divisions seem to evaporate when natural disasters occur and Junger gets straight to the heart of this in Tribe.

I have gone so far as to adapt examples of tribal living in this book into my own life of raising my family. He gives perspective to how we treat our soldiers that return from combat and how we may have it all wrong with the best of intentions. Junger has a unique perspective in regards to our military, as he has documented it extensively from the front lines, in his book WAR and the documentary Restrepo. I have read Tribe almost yearly over the past three years and hope you all decide to do the same as the content is always relevant.