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(5) Published: Sep. 02, 2009
Category: Fiction » Literature » Women's Fiction
Category: Fiction » Literature » Literary
Words: 99019 (approximate)
Language: English
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"Stark and beautiful." Feministing/-/"Haunting and lyrical." NYT bestselling author James Moore /-/ "Affecting." Huffington Post /-/ "You gave [war] a soul, and for that, I thank you." Iraq veteran Charlie Preusser /-/ A cab-driving former professor. A charming and acerbic Vietnam vet. A lover deployed to war, an annoying mother in-law, and an uncommon friendship with a cynical Army wife.Parental Rating:
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Most of the time, writing war stories is fairly straight-forward. You’ve got all those bullets and mortar shells to keep things moving along. State-side, in the WWII playbook, it moved along fairly smoothly also. Especially when you had the wives left behind (June Allyson, Claudette Colbert, et al.) being dressed by Edith Head. But things get a lot messier during unpopular wars, without a Hollywood sound track and gauzy filters on the camera lens to make the tear tracks look like pretty things.
Kristen Tsetsi writes about the hidden conflict a world away from the big one. She does it with style, heart and a profound reality. It is a difficult road. Not much happens when you are basically waiting for your lover to not die. Life goes on and on and on.
What Tsetsi does to force the reader into the solitary confinement that is Mia’s long wait is to write in a style that is fraught with peril: first person, present tense, flat of voice, sharply focused on tiny details, with no broad strokes. Any comment is from an objective journalist, not a diarist. It is technically challenging and she pulls it off.
The result is a heart-rending aria of a woman frozen in time, with no future and little hope. But almost at the point where you want to close the cover and walk away in despair, the large sweep hand of the second hand moves a click. And then another. Finally, it is the beginning of a new day and the slender early rays of self-awareness and a future hope peak over the horizon.
The book does not have a Hollywood ending. It ends based in the same real world that inspired it.