{"product_id":"9780143108665","title":"The War at Home: A Wife's Search for Peace (and Other Missions Impossible): A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA portrait of the strains of a military marriage and meditation on what it means to be left behind—a brave account of the challenges facing the wife of a Naval fighter pilot.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen she fell in love with her brother’s best friend, Rachel Starnes had no idea she was about to repeat a painful family pattern—marrying a man who leaves regularly and for long stretches to work a dangerous job far from home. Through constant relocations, separations, and the crippling doubts of early parenthood, Starnes effortlessly weaves together strands from her past with the relentless pace of Navy life in a time of war. Searingly honest and emotionally unflinching—and at times laugh out loud funny—Starnes eloquently evokes the challenges she faces in trying to find and claim a sense of home while struggling to chart a new path and avoid passing on the same legacy to her two young sons. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt once a portrait of the devastating strains that military life puts on families and a meditation on what it means to be left behind, \u003ci\u003eThe War at Home\u003c\/i\u003e is a brave portrait of a modern military family and the realities of separation, endurance, and love that overcomes.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e“Rachel Starnes’s \u003ci\u003eThe War at Home\u003c\/i\u003e navigates the joys, fears, compromises, and casualties that create the terrain of marriage. And if you are a military spouse, her memoir will reveal thoughts you never even knew you had. This is a wise and fearless book.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eSiobhan Fallon\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eYou Know When the Men Are Gone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “One of the most honest and genuine memoirs I’ve ever read, as well as one of the most finely written. There’s not a false note in these pages. Rachel Starnes’s story is at once both singular and emblematic. . . . \u003ci\u003eThe War at Home\u003c\/i\u003e is that rare thing: a book about the here and now that promises to last well beyond next month or next year.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eSteve Yarbrough\u003c\/b\u003e, award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Realm of Last Chances \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSafe from the Neighbors\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47048063713520,"sku":"9780143108665","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780143108665_p0.jpg?v=1763657016","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780143108665","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}