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  • “This is a wise and fearless book.”
    —SIOBHAN FALLON, author of You Know When the Men Are Gone

  • “One of the most honest and genuine memoirs I’ve ever read.”
    —STEVE YARBROUGH, award-winning author of The Realm of Last Chances

  • “With Texas wit and daughter-of-an-oil-rigger grit, she delivers a powerful memoir of military family life.”
    —ANTHONY SWOFFORD, New York Times bestselling author of Jarhead

  • “Invites us into two worlds not often glimpsed—the loaded culture of Navy wives and the painful doubts of early parenting.”
    —KATEY SCHULZ, award-winning author of Flashes of War

 

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About the Book

When 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.

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