Listen: Billy Pilgrim has… …read Kilgore Trout …opened a successful optometry business …built a loving family …witnessed the firebombing of Dresden …traveled to the planet Tralfamadore …met Kurt Vonnegut …come unstuck in time. Billy Pilgrim\’s journey is at once a farcical look at the horror and tragedy of war where children are placed on the frontlines and die (so it goes), and a moving examination of what it means to be fallibly human.