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ISBN10: 1647791448
ISBN13: 9781647791445
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Published: Jan 30 2024
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.21 Width: 5.57 Depth: 8.58
Language: English
Awards: Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards
ISBN13: 9781647791445
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Published: Jan 30 2024
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.21 Width: 5.57 Depth: 8.58
Language: English
Awards: Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards
Winner of the 2025 Eric Hoffer Book Award for Best Academic Press!
Foreword INDIES 2024 Silver Winner for War & Military (Adult Fiction)! Inspired by Victoria Kelly's experiences as the wife of a fighter pilot during three wartime deployments, this collection follows women whose lives have been impacted by war and military service as they struggle with their fragile ideas of home. In Prayers of an American Wife, a Navy wife grapples with loneliness when she discovers that her neighbor, also a Navy wife, is having an affair while their husbands are deployed on the same aircraft carrier. Tensions rise in The Strangers of Dubai as a soldier on leave tries to buy his wife a souvenir from an Afghan vendor. After attending eight funerals with fellow military wives whose husbands died in the Iraq war, the protagonist in Finding the Good Light divorces her Navy husband and tries to start a new life as a movie star. These, along with the eleven other stories in this collection, explore the emotional landscape of the resilient women who remain on the homefront. Kelly's stories offer readers an intimate, eye-opening look into the sacrifices and steadfastness of military family members.
Foreword INDIES 2024 Silver Winner for War & Military (Adult Fiction)! Inspired by Victoria Kelly's experiences as the wife of a fighter pilot during three wartime deployments, this collection follows women whose lives have been impacted by war and military service as they struggle with their fragile ideas of home. In Prayers of an American Wife, a Navy wife grapples with loneliness when she discovers that her neighbor, also a Navy wife, is having an affair while their husbands are deployed on the same aircraft carrier. Tensions rise in The Strangers of Dubai as a soldier on leave tries to buy his wife a souvenir from an Afghan vendor. After attending eight funerals with fellow military wives whose husbands died in the Iraq war, the protagonist in Finding the Good Light divorces her Navy husband and tries to start a new life as a movie star. These, along with the eleven other stories in this collection, explore the emotional landscape of the resilient women who remain on the homefront. Kelly's stories offer readers an intimate, eye-opening look into the sacrifices and steadfastness of military family members.
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