An excellent read and a good insight into how families can be torn apart by military conflict. It is a role-reversal tale for it is the wife and mother, Jolene, who is deployed to Afghanistan, she is a helicopter pilot. The father, Michael, is left with the kids and his demanding lawyer's practice. Things are pretty stretched but they get a hundred times worse when Jolene comes home. Sensitive and poignant this is a heart-wrenching read.
"Home Front is Hannah's crowning achievement."--The Huffington Post In this powerhouse of a novel, Kristin Hannah explores the intimate landscape of a troubled marriage with this provocative and timely portrait of a husband and wife, in love and at war. All marriages have a breaking point. All families have wounds. All wars have a cost. . . . Like many couples, Michael and Jolene Zarkades have to face the pressures of everyday life--children, careers, bills, chores--even as their twelve-year marriage is falling apart. Then a deployment sends Jolene deep into harm's way and leaves defense attorney Michael at home, unaccustomed to being a single parent to their two girls. As a mother, it agonizes Jolene to leave her family, but as a solider, she has always understood the true meaning of duty. In her letters home, she paints a rose-colored version of her life on the front lines, shielding her family from the truth. But war will change Jolene in ways that none of them could have foreseen. When tragedy strikes, Michael must face his darkest fear and fight a battle of his own--for everything that matters to his family. At once a profoundly honest look at modern marriage and a dramatic exploration of the toll war takes on an ordinary American family, Home Front is a story of love, loss, heroism, honor, and ultimately, hope. "Hannah has written a remarkable tale of duty, love, strength, and hope that is at times poignant and always thoroughly captivating and relevant." --Library Journal (starred review)
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All marriages have a breaking point. All families have wounds.
Home Front features in the following genres: Family Drama, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, General Fiction, Recommendations
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Home Front was written by Kristin Hannah and published by St. Martin's Griffin an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group
Home Front has 432 pages
