Helen Thorpe is a gifted writer with a keen sense of the details that make lives unique and at the same time universal.
Soldier Girls follows 3 women who joined the Indiana National Guard prior to 9/11, hoping for better lives through the benefits and camaraderie the Guard seemed to promise. Instead of a few weekend drills they find themselves in Iraq and Afghanistan for long tours. The women face a myriad of challenges both in the theater of war and back home, profoundly changed by their unexpected deployment.
Soldier Girls is a compulsively readable and moving treatment of war, loss, self discovery and the efforts of ordinary American women to find a way to better their circumstances.
~Cathy
You can listen to an interview at Tattered Cover with Helen Thorpe, as well as read an excerpt HERE.
Watch her on the Daily Show HERE.
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