Hollow: A Memoir of My Body in the Marines

"Illuminating and infuriating . . . A staggering achievement." (Publishers Weekly starred review)

A powerful coming-of-age memoir of one girl's struggle, adrift in warrior culture

At eighteen, Bailey Williams bolted from her strict Mormon upbringing to a Marine recruiting office to enlist as a 2600-a military linguist. But the first language the Marine Corps taught her wasn't Arabic, Farsi, or Dari. It was how Marines speak to, and about, women. There are only three kinds of women in the Ma...