Alive Day: A Memoir

A searing, unflinchingly intimate memoir about one young couple caught up in the machinery of America’s military system, learning to live and love through war and all that comes after

“Astonishing . . . both a love story and a gripping account of the cost of war.”—Stephanie Land, bestselling author of Maid and Class

Karie Fugett is living out of her car in a Kmart parking lot when her boyfriend, Cleve, suggests, “Maybe we could get married or somethin’.” Karie says yes out of love but also ou...