false <![CDATA[Homefront]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175630445m/538580.jpg 538580 1 Homefront explores the uncomfortable truths of a deployment: jealousy, selfishness, joy, anger, and abject fear. Through the interactions between the book's true-to-life characters (Mia, the professor-turned- cabdriver whose boyfriend deploys to Iraq; Jake, the boyfriend; Olivia, Jake's mother; Denise, a disgruntled soldier's wife and friend to Mia; Donny Donaldson, an alcoholic, maybe-Vietnam veteran and Mia's cab fare), Homefront reveals the unexpected beauty to be found hiding in the torture of waiting as each character responds to the war in his or her own unique, and painfully intimate, way. 525982 22 3 2007 Homefront total:11|5:4|4:4|3:3|2:0|1:0| 11 45 28 7 4 2 false false Tue Mar 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Feb 21 17:50:18 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 11 16:31:23 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 28 09:38:07 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 28 09:45:55 -0700 2007 Homefront before I looked up from the book. The beginning is grabber with the conflicted relationship, the impending sense of doom, and the isolation of the narrator. What I loved most about this novel is t...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jul 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 12:42:37 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 12:49:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Mar 31 00:53:15 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 31 00:56:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Oct 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 18:43:37 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 17:49:19 -0700 2009 1 0 0 false false Fri Dec 19 10:35:14 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 19 10:35:21 -0800 2008 http://www.feministing.com/archives/0127...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Oct 04 21:08:03 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 13 22:57:00 -0700 2008 http://www.bookpleasures.com/Lore2/idx/0...
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