{"id":404,"date":"2013-07-10T16:22:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T20:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/?p=404"},"modified":"2013-07-10T16:22:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T20:22:00","slug":"the-home-front-in-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/?p=404","title":{"rendered":"The home front in fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve read a few books recently that address\u00a0our 21st century\u00a0home front by approaching it through fiction, whether through novels or short stories. In &#8220;Home front&#8221; by Kristin Hannah, the author portrays a woman soldier who has trained most of her adult life to be a military pilot, and finally gets to see some action in Afghanistan, to the dismay of her increasingly estranged husband, surly teenage daughter, and clingy younger daughter. Unfortunately things don&#8217;t work out well for Joline, our heroine, but ultimately the family comes together. While not a literary masterpiece, &#8220;Home front&#8221; does give a different kind of perspective &#8211; of the female soldier, with her family left behind to try to hold it together without mom, the glue of the family.<\/p>\n<p>In &#8220;You know when the men are gone&#8221; by Siobhan Fallon, these sometimes interlinked short stories that take place at Fort Hood, Texas, show various sides to the story, and mostly that &#8220;war is hell&#8221; on relationships. Some do better than others, but overall the characters are all just doing the best they can (more or less). Better written than &#8220;Home front&#8221; there is sometimes a dry humor that keeps the book from being too depressing, given the subject matter.<\/p>\n<p>And on the poetry end, &#8220;Blood Red Dawn,&#8221; mentioned in the April 2nd post, gives both the home front and front lines perspective, by way of poetry &#8211; written by the author as a catharsis and way of dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder.<\/p>\n<p>There are many more perspectives out there &#8211; anyone have a favorite war or home front book, perhaps from earlier wars than the current ones our soldiers<a href=\"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/bench-in-memory-of-Susie-and-Larry-Rich.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-405\" alt=\"bench in memory of Susie and Larry Rich\" src=\"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/bench-in-memory-of-Susie-and-Larry-Rich.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/bench-in-memory-of-Susie-and-Larry-Rich.jpg 550w, https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/bench-in-memory-of-Susie-and-Larry-Rich-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/bench-in-memory-of-Susie-and-Larry-Rich-412x300.jpg 412w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a> are bravely fighting, where their loved ones are left behind to pick up the pieces?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve read a few books recently that address\u00a0our 21st century\u00a0home front by approaching it through fiction, whether through novels or short stories. In &#8220;Home front&#8221; by Kristin Hannah, the author portrays a woman soldier who has trained most of her adult life to be a military pilot, and finally gets to see some action in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/?p=404\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The home front in fiction<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[178,174,175,176,177],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-afghanistan","tag-home-front","tag-kristin-hannah","tag-siobhan-fallon","tag-war"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions\/408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}