- James Moore, emmy award-winning former television news correspondent and co-author of the bestselling, Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential
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"Beatiful and stark. The protagonist's voice--that of a young, heady woman--is so familiar, so real, so intimate that I can almost imagine it were my own, though I've never had anywhere close to the same experience. "
- feministing.com
Kristen J. Tsetsi's husband deployed to Iraq with the 101st Airborne Division in 2003. Homefront, semi-autobiographical, has been hailed by literary readers and critics alike, but also - and more importantly - by military and military spouses, who praise its accurate, highly intimate, and revealing portrayal of the private experience of waiting through a deployment.
"Soulful. Thrilling and seductive."
- Josip Novakovich, author of April Fool's Day
"The prose is exquisite, the mood heartbreaking."
- N. Frank Daniels, author of futureproof
"I loved Jake as a character...and I loved Mia."
- Carolyn See, author of The Handyman
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-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 "So many times I found myself clutching at my chest at the terrible pain I was feeling...because my wife, back on the homefront, couldn't understand what I was expressing to her. The truth is she was expressing things to me that, until reading Homefront, I just didn't understand. Homefront is powerful." - Andrew Arlint, US Army "I really want to encourage people to pick up Homefront. The war in Iraq is ... the engine for an incisive look at separation, loss, fidelity, guilt, and uncertainty. I really enjoyed this book on the level of both content and style, and would rank it with other portraits of women under pressure, such as my favorite [Margaret] Atwood novel, Cat’s Eye, and Janet Fitch’s Paint it Black. Anyone who enjoys either of those authors, or Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time Traveler’s Wife, should definitely give Homefront a read. "I should also mention that Homefront concludes with one of the more satisfying endings I’ve read recently. I should have seen it coming, but didn’t. I love it when that happens." - James Viscosi, author of Night Watchman and Dragon Stones "Every once in a while I will start a book and never want it to end. It's very rare. I usually enjoy finishing a book so I can get started on a new one. But with Kristen Tsetsi's Homefront, I wish it was a never ending serial novel, with new chapters appearing magically every day." - James Aaron Lindsey "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." - 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." - 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 Homefront 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 Dalton, 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
"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
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