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Helen Benedict
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Julianna Baggott wrote a great but upsetting column in the Washington Post recently, saying to achieve literary success, a woman had to write like a man -- or more specifically, write from a man's point of view.
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Could this be true? Examples crowd my mind. Who, aside from Virginia Woolf and Charlotte Bronte, is an exception? read more »
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Could this be true? Examples crowd my mind. Who, aside from Virginia Woolf and Charlotte Bronte, is an exception? read more »
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The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq
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Sand Queen
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Opposite of Love
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Virgin or Vamp
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Edge of Eden
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The Sailor's Wife
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2000
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Bad Angel
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1996
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Portraits in Print: A Collection of Profiles and the Stories Behind Them
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1991
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A World Like This
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Recovery: How to Survive Sexual Assault for Women, Men, Teenagers, and Their Friends and Family
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The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq (Nonfiction)
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an amazing book. truly depicts what war is like for women. i felt immediately attached to Kate, i cannot even imagine what it's like out there, but the author painted a great picture in my mind. go out and read!
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this book was really insightful. I never knew being in the military was so hard for women. I really felt for Kate, I felt anger on her behalf and it made me wnat to do something to help women soldiers who are stationed in horrid conditions. I have...
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Sand Queen is the story of two young women whose lives are forever changed by the Iraq war: 19-year-old American soldier Kate and Iraqi medical student Naema. The story is written i... " Read more of this review » |
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| Every word in this novel carries a punch. The wit is superb, not a second wasted. And oh, the ache of adolescence captured here! Brilliant writing. | |
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“But fiction is not, as many nonwriters seem to think, a random grab bag of made-up whimsies, as undisciplined and unreasoned as a dream. Nor is it simply reporting with the names changed. It is an amalgam of experience, education, reading, insight, analysis, conversations, observation, and conscious research.”
― Helen Benedict
― Helen Benedict
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“It is hard to determine what is most disturbing about this book—the devious and immoral tactics used by leaders and recruiters to get women to join the military, the terrible poverty and personal violence women were escaping that lead them to be vulnerable to such manipulation, the raping and harassing of women soldiers by their superiors and comrades once they got to Iraq, or the untreated homelessness, illnesses and madness that have haunted women since they came home. The Lonely Soldier is an important book, a crucial accounting of the shameful war on women who gave their bodies, lives and souls for their country.”
― Eve Ensler
― Eve Ensler
