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Since You Went Away Part One: Winter
Set against the backdrop of the Iraq war in the year 2008, Since You Went Away portrays in intimate detail the effects of a distant war on the families and returning veterans at home. With an undercurrent of suspense, it is a fly-on-the-wall account of the innermost workings of a military family--their fears and hopes, their struggles and disappointments, their unexpected moments of joy and comfort and laughter.
When her husband Liam leaves on a year-long deployment, Emilie Mahoney strives to be a source of strength for Liam and their two sons. Yet she doesn't always succeed. Holding down a full-time job, raising two teenage boys, and running a household with a menagerie of pets--all while hosting an Iraqi combat interpreter who comes to live with them as he acclimates to life in the U.S.--Emilie frequently finds herself retreating to her bedroom with a Party Size bag of Lay's to watch back-to-back episodes of Snapped.
Featuring a deeply human cast of characters ranging from Wade Miller, a charming, charismatic retired Marine officer who watches over the family in Liam's absence as he struggles with secrets of his own, and the amiable, enigmatic combat interpreter Fakhir al-Azzawi who worries about the safety of his family back in Baghdad as he comes to terms with trauma from his past, to the wacky and bothersome neighbor Agnes Hawkins who always manages to say the wrong thing and whose favorite pastime is watching the goings-on at the Mahoney house from her living-room window, Since You Went Away is at once darkly funny, poignant, and un-put-downable.
This is Part One of a novel that will be released in four parts.
N O W A V A I L A B L E : Part Two: Spring.
Set against the backdrop of the Iraq war in the year 2008, Since You Went Away portrays in intimate detail the effects of a distant war on the families and returning veterans at home. With an undercurrent of suspense, it is a fly-on-the-wall account of the innermost workings of a military family--their fears and hopes, their struggles and disappointments, their unexpected moments of joy and comfort and laughter.
When her husband Liam leaves on a year-long deployment, Emilie Mahoney strives to be a source of strength for Liam and their two sons. Yet she doesn't always succeed. Holding down a full-time job, raising two teenage boys, and running a household with a menagerie of pets--all while hosting an Iraqi combat interpreter who comes to live with them as he acclimates to life in the U.S.--Emilie frequently finds herself retreating to her bedroom with a Party Size bag of Lay's to watch back-to-back episodes of Snapped.
Featuring a deeply human cast of characters ranging from Wade Miller, a charming, charismatic retired Marine officer who watches over the family in Liam's absence as he struggles with secrets of his own, and the amiable, enigmatic combat interpreter Fakhir al-Azzawi who worries about the safety of his family back in Baghdad as he comes to terms with trauma from his past, to the wacky and bothersome neighbor Agnes Hawkins who always manages to say the wrong thing and whose favorite pastime is watching the goings-on at the Mahoney house from her living-room window, Since You Went Away is at once darkly funny, poignant, and un-put-downable.
This is Part One of a novel that will be released in four parts.
N O W A V A I L A B L E : Part Two: Spring.
Product Details
BN ID: | 2940157450113 |
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Publisher: | Rainwater Press |
Publication date: | 03/31/2017 |
Series: | (Since You Went Away series) , #1 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | NOOK Book |
Pages: | 172 |
File size: | 1 MB |
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