18/18 Amazon.com Reader Reviews:
"The prose is exquisite, the mood heartbreaking."
- N. Frank Daniels, author of Futureproof
Her husband deployed to Iraq with the 101st Airborne Division just before the war in Iraq started and returned a year later. Homefront, semi-autobiographical, explores the intimate emotional and psychological experience of having a lover at war.
Read the Messenger Post article on Homefront here.
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"Often forgotten amid yellow-ribbon bumper stickers and Welcome Home ceremonies, Kristen Tsetsi's Homefront renders love and the very capacity to love as casualties of war, all in prose glittering with humility, humor and incisive detail."
-Benjamin Buchholz, author of Private Soldiers
Writes Alan Davis, Senior Editor of New Rivers Press, "The sheer accumulation of life detail and the interplay of vivid secondary characters, braided together with the transcribed correspondence of the lovers, force its readers to feel from the inside what the horror and the tedium of the homefront is like over time."
READER REACTIONS "Homefront is powerful." - Andrew, US Army Officer - Ian Thomas Healy, www.ianthealy.com. "Occasionally, a book comes along that you know you will want to share before you've finished the read. Homefront is such a book." - John McDonald, Waxahachie, TX "Tsetsi’s observations are keen, and to say that she possesses the gift of subtlety would be an understatement. Her sentences are whittled down to their essentials and yet they are loaded; not telling you much, but also telling you everything. I have read the book three times since it was released three months ago." - Beth Kernaghan, Artist and Army wife, Fort Rucker, AL "It's customary here, in my house, to have TV news on from around 4PM 'till when I go to bed (unless I find a good movie to watch). But I started reading your book this morning and just now, finding time to sit and read for a while before dinner, I can't have the news on." --L.T. Charlestown, NH "I have not seen any book that truly explores what a person goes through when their significant other is deployed. You hear that it’s hard, but what did they go through? As someone who never had to deal with a deployment, I could only imagine it was hard. Reading Homefront gave me more empathy for those who stay behind, and I was able to feel it in a way I never had before.” – Tina D. Champlain, MN "The characters in Homefront will long outlast your reading of the book. Strongly drawn and very sympathetic, the people Kristen Tsetsi has created are strikingly memorable. Tsetsi has a unique ability to delineate both male and female characters and is a gifted observer of modern life." - Glenn Osborn, Perrysburg, Ohio
Kristen
J. Tsetsi has done something few other authors have been able to; she’s
captivated me with a non-genre title. Homefront kept me turning pages,
not because of suspense or exciting action, but because of the depth
with which she explores the psyche of her narrator.
"Homefront by Kristen Tsetsi is an early and important document of this aspect of an extended war of occupation in a far away foreign land."
- Jim Parks (News writer and Veteran), Waco, TX
Published by Penxhere Press.
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