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Kristen J. Tsetsi's debut novel, Homefront, takes us into the life of
twenty-six year old Mia, who faces a battle against anxiety, loneliness and despair when her boyfriend is deployed to Iraq. By alternating plot with a slices-of-life format, Tsetsi gives dimension to her book in a subtle and masterful way, contrasting her clear, precise, concrete prose — which makes up the majority of the book — with a quasi-stream-of consciousness style interspersed throughout. Her solid, seamless and detailed writing has the power to bring us into each scene.
The result is an engaging, realistic portrait of a lover's life at the
homefront. Sonia Reppe, BookPleasures.com
Synopsis:
This is the untold war story.
Lt. Col. Dave Grossman writes in his novel On Killing that soldiers experience a range of psychological effects resulting from war: "fear, exhaustion, guilt and horror, hate, fortitude" (51).
The loved ones they leave behind experience similar psychological traumas that create a very personal homefront war, one often misconstrued by the media — "as well as by those with no first-hand deployment experience — as simple "missing" and "worry."
Homefront sheds needed light on the highly under-documented internal battles suffered by those left waiting. Each true-to-life character in Homefront (Mia, the professor-turned-cabdriver whose boyfriend deploys to Iraq; Jake, the boyfriend; Olivia, Jake's mother; Denise, a disgruntled soldier's wife and friend to Mia; Donny Donaldson, an alcoholic, maybe-Vietnam veteran and Mia's cab fare) responds to the war in his or her own unique, and painfully intimate, way.
"Review"
by Sonia Reppe, BookPleasures.com,
Kristen J. Tsetsi's debut novel, Homefront, takes us into the life of twenty-six year old Mia, who faces a battle against anxiety, loneliness and despair when her boyfriend is deployed to Iraq. By alternating plot with a slices-of-life format, Tsetsi gives dimension to her book in a subtle and masterful way, contrasting her clear, precise, concrete prose — which makes up the majority of the book — with a quasi-stream-of consciousness style interspersed throughout. Her solid, seamless and detailed writing has the power to bring us into each scene. The result is an engaging, realistic portrait of a lover's life at the homefront.
"Synopsis"
by nathan@powells.com,
This is the untold war story.
Lt. Col. Dave Grossman writes in his novel On Killing that soldiers experience a range of psychological effects resulting from war: "fear, exhaustion, guilt and horror, hate, fortitude" (51).
The loved ones they leave behind experience similar psychological traumas that create a very personal homefront war, one often misconstrued by the media — "as well as by those with no first-hand deployment experience — as simple "missing" and "worry."
Homefront sheds needed light on the highly under-documented internal battles suffered by those left waiting. Each true-to-life character in Homefront (Mia, the professor-turned-cabdriver whose boyfriend deploys to Iraq; Jake, the boyfriend; Olivia, Jake's mother; Denise, a disgruntled soldier's wife and friend to Mia; Donny Donaldson, an alcoholic, maybe-Vietnam veteran and Mia's cab fare) responds to the war in his or her own unique, and painfully intimate, way.
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