Home Front

I read Kristin Hannah's novel, Home Front and was kept entertained the whole time. Sometimes I thought Hannah went overboard in the emotional intensity of the characters of Jolene and Betsy. Jolene is a mother of two girls and a wife and a member of the National Guard.She is a helicopter pilot who gets deployed to Iraq.The story of how she and her family handles her deployment and subsequent return to home life near Seattle, Washington is an interesting one and one that is seldom told. Men going to war and returning home are often mentioned in stories but it's not so often we hear about the wife and mother who go to war and come back with nightmares and PTSD (Post traumatic stress disorder).