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See all 18 customer reviews..."Through several sharply-drawn supporting characters and scenes of daily life in a military town, the reader is drawn deeply into Mia’s psychological disconnect from her unwanted reality. Homefront reads like a long-form haiku written by Charles Bukowski in collaboration with Ann Beattie; almost every paragraph is a stand-alone gem of insight and observation."
-- Rick Shefchik, journalist, award-winning columnist, and author of Amen Corner
"If there's a war on (and, these days, there's usually a war on), I want to be reading about it. I appreciate first person accounts, either fictionalized or not, and Kristen Tsetsi's Homefront, an emotional novel about a young couple's separation when Jake is shipped to Iraq, is a worthy new entry in this category."
-- Levi Asher, Literary Kicks
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"[Tsetsi's] solid, seamless and detailed writing has the power to bring us into each scene."
--Sonia Reppe
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"An intensely intimate and affecting story...I was 100 pages into Homefrontbefore I looked up from the book."
-- Steven J. McDermott, Editor, Storyglossia
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-- PODler
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"They Three at Once Were One"is a short story written in much the same vain as was Homefront. Nan, a hotel front-desk clerk, experiences a night of agonizing worry when she sees on the news that a tank has tipped over in the Euphrates. Her lover may or may not have gone with it.
"They Three..." won the Storyglossia Fiction Prize in 2006, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and the Million Writers Award, and recently made the MWA short list of notable short stories of 2006.
It was reviewed by Steven McDermott in Storyglossia and by Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network.
"...great little details Tsetsi includes...the plastic plate the Chinese food is on, noticing the television anchor smiling in between stories of ied's exploding in Iraq and American obesity, the floor Nan dives onto late in the story smelling like dust, and the list goes on. Tsetsi is very observant with her writing, and these little touches go a long way into creating the scenarios." -- Dan Wickett, the Emerging Writers Network. Read the rest here.