The War at Home: A Wife's Search for Peace (and Other Missions

The War at Home: A Wife's Search for Peace (and Other Missions Impossible): A Memoir

A portrait of the strains of a military marriage and meditation on what it means to be left behindâ€”a brave account of the challenges facing the wife of a Naval fighter pilot.

When she fell in love with her brotherâ€™s best friend, Rachel Starnes had no idea she was about to repeat a painful family patternâ€”marrying a man who leaves regularly and for long stretches to work a dangerous job far from home. Through constant relocations, separations, and the crippling doubts of early parenthood, Starnes effortlessly weaves together strands from her past with the relentless pace of Navy life in a time of war. Searingly honest and emotionally unflinchingâ€”and at times laugh out loud funnyâ€”Starnes eloquently evokes the challenges she faces in trying to find and claim a sense of home while struggling to chart a new path and avoid passing on the same legacy to her two young sons.

At once a portrait of the devastating strains that military life puts on families and a meditation on what it means to be left behind, The War at Home is a brave portrait of a modern military family and the realities of separation, endurance, and love that overcomes.
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â€œRachel Starnesâ€™s The War at Home navigates the joys, fears, compromises, and casualties that create the terrain of marriage. And if you are a military spouse, her memoir will reveal thoughts you never even knew you had. This is a wise and fearless book.â€
â€”Siobhan Fallon, author of You Know When the Men Are Gone
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â€œOne of the most honest and genuine memoirs Iâ€™ve ever read, as well as one of the most finely written. Thereâ€™s not a false note in these pages. Rachel Starnesâ€™s story is at once both singular and emblematic. . . .Â The War at HomeÂ is that rare thing: a book about the here and now that promises to last well beyond next month or next year.â€
â€”Steve Yarbrough, award-winning author ofÂ The Realm of Last Chances andÂ Safe from the Neighbors

From the Trade Paperback edition.
Country USA
Brand Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer Penguin Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-07-05

Country	USA
Brand	Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer	Penguin Books
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2016-07-05

The War at Home: A Wife's Search for Peace (and Other Missions Impossible): A Memoir

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