Her entry begins:
Like so many people these days, I feel overwhelmed and distressed by the many injustices crowding in on us, from the wars in the Middle East to the dismantling of the natural world, the destruction of our environment, the persecution of immigrants and Latinos, and the deriding of science and fact. I could go on.About The Soldier's House, from the publisher:
So I recently retreated to rereading my favorite novel in the world: Middlemarch, by George Eliot, only to find that she was writing about all the same things a century and a half ago. The way hypocrisy and lies destroy people, including the hypocrites and liars. The evils of greed and destruction. The consequences of...[read on]
A bold and compassionate novel about war’s aftermath, The Soldier’s House confronts the uneasy truths of rescue, redemption,Visit Helen Benedict's website.and what it means to share a home and future with a former enemy.
In The Soldier’s House, Helen Benedict tells the story of an Iraq War veteran who saves the lives of his assassinated Iraqi interpreter’s widow, child, and mother by bringing them to his upstate New York home. For the soldier, this is a way of making amends, but the widow finds being rescued by the enemy both humiliating and compromising. This is a compassionate tale that examines whether redemption and forgiveness are even possible in the wake of war. In light of the increasing displacement of people all over the world, The Soldier’s House is particularly timely and poignant.
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