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Genuinely moving A warm and at times heartbreaking collection of stories about what happens to the men and women who go off to war and the families that wait for them.. "Very good short novel about the impact the current war has" according to Michelle L. Olson. Very good short novel about the impact the current war has on wives and significant others at Ft. Hood in Kileen. It's engaging and a real page-turner.. M. Godon said The damage on the home front. Siobhan Fallon was on NPR a couple of weeks ago discussing this collection of fictional short stories, all of which are related to a group of men deployed from Fort Hood and their families at home. After mentioning it to a military wife, I thought I'd read the book myself. Fallon's writing is very good - without being over-the-top, she manages to describe many difficulties that deployed men and their families face. It's realistic but unfortunate that most of the reunions described in these stories are not happy reunions.***Spoiler warning***Most of the bad things that happen in the stories might be consid

(Jan.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. . One of the strongest stories, "You Survived the War, Now Survive the Homecoming," attests to the chasm separating men who can't speak about the atrocities they've experienced and their wives, who've lived with their own terrible burdens. The wife in "Inside the Break" realizes that she can't confront her husband's probable infidelity with a female soldier in Iraq; as in other stories, there's a gap between what she can imagine and what she can bear to know. All rights reserved. In "Remission," a cancer patient waiting on the results of a crucial test is devastated by the behavior of her teenage daughter, and while the trials of adolescence are universal, this story is particularized by the unique tensions between military pare

They'll meet a wife who discovers unsettling secrets when she hacks into her husband's email, and a teenager who disappears as her mother fights cancer. There is the foreign born wife who has tongues wagging over her late hours, and the military intelligence officer who plans a covert mission against his own home.Powerful, singular, and unforgettable, these stories will resonate deeply with readers and mark the debut of a new talent of tremendous note.. "Gripping, straight-up, no-nonsense stories about American soldiers and their families simple, tough, and true." -- The New York Times"Fascinating." -- O, the Oprah Ma

She earned her MFA at the New School in New York City. Siobhan Fallon lived at Fort Hood for three years while her husband, a majorin the Army, was deployed to Iraq for two tours of duty.