War Flower: My Life After Iraq
Title | War Flower: My Life After Iraq |
Publication Type | Book |
Year of Publication | 2019 |
Authors | King, Brooke |
Number of Pages | 255 |
Abstract | Brooke King has been asked over and over what it’s like to be a woman in combat, but she knows her answer is not what the public wants to hear. The answers people seek lie in the graphic details of war—the sex, death, violence, and reality of it all as she experienced it. In this riveting memoir, King breaks her silence and reveals the truth about her experience as a soldier in Iraq. The story of a girl who went to war and returned home a woman, War Flower gathers the enduring remembrances of a soldier coming to grips with post-traumatic stress disorder. As King recalls her time in Iraq, she reflects on what violence does to a woman and how the psychic wounds of combat are unwittingly passed down from mother to children. The memoir is ultimately a profound meditation on what it means to have been a woman in a war zone and an unsettling exposé on war and its lingering aftershocks. For veterans such as King, the toughest lesson of service is that in the mind, some wars never end—even after you come home. |
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