So I just completed Back Home by Julia Keller. The book profiles a family learning how to adapt to a dad who has been injured while fighting in Iraq. I chose this book because I feel fairly removed from the two wars we are fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq. What must it be like to say goodbye to a parent and not know their fate until the next e-mail or phone call home? "Brownie", the eldest girl in the family, starts of the book claiming that it is kids who are supposed to change, not parents and yet, when war is involved that's not the case. The book follows her thoughts from hearing about the accident, her mother going to see her dad at the hospital, to his eventual home coming. The sacrifice our soldiers make in the name of democracy is incredible and life altering, not only for the soldiers themselves, but for their families. This book served as a means for a reader like me to live vicariously in one of those families and experience their sacrifices up close.
Mrs. Baran
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