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St. Martin's Press
February 2015
On Sale: February 17, 2015
Featuring: Ellen; Lacey; Michael
ISBN: 1250052483 EAN: 9781250052483 Kindle: B00JO1PAIS Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction
Emily Gray Tedrowe has written an extraordinary novel about
ordinary people, a graceful and gritty portrayal of what
it’s like for the women whose husbands and sons are deployed
in Iraq. BLUE STARS brings to life the realities of the modern day
home front: how to get through the daily challenges of
motherhood and holding down a job while bearing the stress
and uncertainty of war, when everything can change in an
instant. It tells the story of Ellen, a Midwestern
literature professor, who is drawn into the war when her
legal ward Michael enlists as a Marine; and of Lacey, a
proud Army wife who struggles to pay the bills and keep
things going for her son while her husband is deployed. Ellen and Lacey cope with the fear and stress of a loved one
at war while trying to get by in a society that often
ignores or misunderstands what war means to women today.
When Michael and Eddie are injured in Iraq, Ellen and
Lacey’s lives become intertwined in Walter Reed Army
Hospital, where each woman must live while caring for her
wounded soldier. They form an alliance, and an unlikely
friendship, while helping each other survive the dislocated
world of the army hospital. Whether that means fighting for
proper care for their men, sharing a six-pack, or coping
with irrevocable loss, Ellen and Lacey pool their strengths
to make it through. In the end, both women are changed, not
only by the war and its fallout, but by each other.
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