Home Front: A Novel
by Kristin Hannah
In this 2012 novel about a military family, Black Hawk helicopter pilot Jolene is deployed to the Iraq War, leaving her attorney husband to manage their family single-handed. Jolene attempts to protect her family from frightening reality in her letters home—until a terrible tragedy forces them all to reckon with the horrors of war. A portrait of a disintegrating marriage and a veteran relearning to love and to parent after experiencing trauma.
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