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A Father-Son Story About Love and the U.S. Marine Corps
Carroll & Graf
December 2003
On Sale: December 1, 2003
272 pages
ISBN: 0786713089
EAN: 9780786713080
Paperback (reprint)
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Non-Fiction Biography
In 1998, Frank Schaeffer was a bohemian novelist living in
"Volvo driving, higher-education worshipping" Massachusetts
with two children graduated from top universities. Then his
youngest child, straight out of high school, joined the
United States Marine Corps. Written in alternating voices by
eighteen-year-old John and his father, Frank, Keeping Faith
takes readers in riveting fashion through a family's
experience of the Marine Corps: from being broken down and
built back up on Parris Island (and being the parent of a
child undergoing that experience), to the growth of both
father and son and their separate reevaluations of what it
means to serve. From Frank's realization that among his
fellow soccer dads "the very words 'boot camp' were
pejorative, conjuring up 'troubled youths at risk'" ("'But
aren't they all terribly southern?' asked one parent") to
John's learning that "the Marine next to you is more
important than you are," Keeping Faith - a New York Times
bestseller - is a fascinating and personal examination of
issues of class, duty, and patriotism. The fact that John is
currently serving in the Middle East only adds to the impact
of this wonderfully written, timely, and moving human
interest story.
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